female circumcision

1. 1.

   excision of the clitoris

   Synonymsclitoridectomy

   Broaderablation

Questions about female circumcision

What does female circumcision mean?

female circumcision means "excision of the clitoris".

What is another word for female circumcision?

Close synonyms include clitoridectomy. 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 female circumcision a common word?

female circumcision 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.