genderize
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
genderize (third-person singular simple present genderizes, present participle genderizing, simple past and past participle genderized)
- (transitive) To bestow gender upon; to make male or female, or assign masculine or feminine qualities to.
- 1981 April 4, Signe A. Dayhoff, “Sexist Language: You Become Your Label”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
- By genderizing words, society makes sex-discrimination a requirement. Thus, when one sex is stipulated, the other is excluded.
- 2002, Helene P Foley, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy:
- Yet the implications of implicitly genderizing ethical positions in these particular plays may be even more far reaching than it appears on the surface.
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
to bestow gender upon
|