masculinize

English

Alternative forms

• masculinise

Etymology

From masculine +‎ -ize.

Verb

masculinize (third-person singular simple present masculinizes, present participle masculinizing, simple past and past participle masculinized)

1. (transitive) To make masculine; to give typically male characteristics.
   • 1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 11, →DOI, page 642:

     Returning to the sculptor described earlier, we know why that young woman suffered. She was housebound and bedbound, her face was changed by steroids, she was masculinized by her treatment, one breast was scarred, and she had almost no hair.

   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Impersonality always masculinizes a woman.

Synonyms

• manify
• masculize (rare)

Antonyms

• feminize

Derived terms

• masculinization

Translations

make (more) masculine

• Catalan: masculinitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 男性化 (naam⁴ sing³ faa³)

  Hokkien: 男性化 (lâm-sèng-hòa)

  Mandarin: 男性化 (zh) (nánxìnghuà)

• Finnish: maskuliinisoida
• French: masculiniser (fr)
• Galician: masculinizar
• German: vermännlichen (de), maskulinisieren
• Italian: mascolinizzare
• Korean: 남성화(男性化)하다 (namseonghwahada)
• Polish: maskulinizować impf, zmaskulinizować pf, umężczyźniać impf, umężczyźnić pf
• Portuguese: masculinizar (pt)
• Spanish: masculinizar (es)
• Swedish: maskulinisera (sv)

Galician

Verb

masculinize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of masculinizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

masculinize

1. inflection of masculinizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative