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UK
/fˌɛmɪnaɪzˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration
How To Use feminisation In A Sentence
- But, as Sage points out, we as a culture don’t object to the “defeminisation” good word innovation, btw of girls nearly as much as we object to emasculation of boys. Link Farm and Open Thread #16
- But those slightly loopy ideas aside, the idea that ‘feminisation’ can make our high streets a happier place to be is a good one.
- The feminisation of management also depends on gender diversity in educational institutions where companies recruit managers.
- Archbishop Cranmer has a nice article about the feminisation of British politics and decries the creation of "‘Department of Energy and Climate Change’, neutering the virility of potency with the gynogenesis of Mother Earth. Archive 2008-10-01
- One of the great mythic transformations of the early nineteenth century was the feminisation of angels.
- My point is that we typically *don’t* object to the defeminisation of girls. Link Farm and Open Thread #16
- I think that what we don’t typically object to, is the non-defeminisation of girls. Link Farm and Open Thread #16
- But, as Sage points out, we as a culture don’t object to the “defeminisation” good word innovation, btw of girls nearly as much as we object to emasculation of boys. Link Farm and Open Thread #16
- On emasculation and defeminisation, typically little girls who wear dirty jeans and a baseball hat and play with trucks, etc. are seen as cute. Link Farm and Open Thread #16
- So one might expect to see some feminisation of the basic male gender behaviour in play.