demasculinize

Questions about demasculinize

What does demasculinize mean?

demasculinize means "remove the testicles of a male animal".

How many syllables are in demasculinize?

demasculinize has 5 syllables and divides as de-ma-scu-li-nize under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for demasculinize?

Close synonyms include emasculate, castrate, demasculinise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is demasculinize a common word?

demasculinize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.