"feminization" meaning in English

See feminization in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌfɛmɪnɪˈzeɪʃən/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-feminization.wav Forms: feminizations [plural]
Etymology: From feminize + -ation. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁(y)-}}, {{suffix|en|feminize|ation}} feminize + -ation Head templates: {{en-noun}} feminization (plural feminizations)
  1. The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized. Translations (act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized): feminització [feminine] (Catalan), féminisation [feminine] (French), feminización [feminine] (Galician), ფემინიზაცია (peminizacia) (Georgian), Feminisierung [feminine] (German), Feminisation [feminine] (German), Verweiblichung [feminine] (German), femminilizzazione [feminine] (Italian), feminizacja [feminine] (Polish), ukobiecenie [neuter] (Polish), feminização [feminine] (Portuguese), feminización [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-feminization-en-noun-7P6fK7e4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ation, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 43 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ation: 65 35 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 63 37 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of 'act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized': 97 3
  2. (biology) The development of female sex characteristics. Categories (topical): Biology Translations (development of female sex characteristics): feminització [feminine] (Catalan), feminisaatio (Finnish), feminización [feminine] (Galician), ფემინიზაცია (peminizacia) (Georgian), Feminisierung [feminine] (German), Feminisation [feminine] (German), Verweiblichung [feminine] (German), femminilizzazione [feminine] (Italian), feminizacja [feminine] (Polish), feminização [feminine] (Portuguese), feminización [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-feminization-en-noun-E0PsgE4V Topics: biology, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'development of female sex characteristics': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: femalization, feminisation Derived forms: hyperfeminization, overfeminization, refeminization

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.