feminization

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsfeminisation

   Broaderpathologic process

Other forms of feminization

plural

feminizations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about feminization

What does feminization mean?

feminization means "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 many syllables are in feminization?

feminization has 6 syllables: fe-mi-ni-za-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for feminization?

Close synonyms include feminisation. 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 feminization a common word?

feminization 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.