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Feminization

Definition: Feminization

Feminization

Noun

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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: Feminization

Synonym: feminisation (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Feminization

Specialty definitions using "feminization": Testicular Feminization. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Feminization

DomainTitle

Books

  • Altering Eden: The Feminization of Nature (reference)

  • 'I Sing for I Cannot Be Silent': The Feminization of American Hymnody, 1870-1920 (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture) (reference)

  • Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex (reference)

  • Surviving the Feminization of America: How to Keep Women from Ruining Your Life (reference)

  • The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Feminization

"Feminization" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Feminization" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Feminization

Expression using "feminization": Testicular Feminization. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Feminization

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

forced feminization

1,035

feminization male story

15

feminization

408

feminization fiction forced

13

forced feminization story

239

feminization picture

13

feminization forced male

92

feminization forced free story

11

feminization story

86

feminization training

10

husband feminization

75

feminization forced free

10

feminization of the male

73

feminization forced picture

9

enforced feminization

58

feminization humiliation

9

testicular feminization

53

feminization strap

9

facial feminization

33

feminization forced video

9

hypnotic feminization

30

feminization force

8

forced feminization sissy

25

feminization forced gallery

8

feminization man

23

feminization mistress

8

feminization man story

23

feminization forced male picture

7

facial feminization surgery

23

enforced feminization story

7

feminization hypnosis

21

husband humiliation feminization

7

feminization sissy

18

forced feminization story archive

6

feminization forced man

18

feminization forced sissification

6

feminization of poverty

16

by feminization hypnosis

6

art feminization forced

15

feminization transsexual

6

art feminization

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Feminization

Language Translations for "feminization"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

féminisme (feminism), féminisation. (various references)

   

German

  

Feminisierung, Feminisation, Feminierung, Verweiblichung. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

女性化 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

じょせいか. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eminizationfay

   

Thai

  

การสนับสนุนสิทธิสตรี. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự phú tính đ n b cho sự l m cho uỷ mị. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Feminization

Derivations

Words beginning with "feminization": feminizations. (additional references)

Words ending with "feminization": defeminization. (additional references)

Words containing "feminization": defeminizations. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Feminization" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: demonisation. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Feminization"

Words rhyming with "feminization" (pronounced 'Fem`i*ni*za"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Feminization

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-i-i-m-n-n-o-t-z"

-4 letters: infinite, monazite, nominate.

-5 letters: amniote, atomize, enation, fanzine, fontina, infante, intimae, mannite, menazon, mention, montane, nonmeat.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-i-i-m-n-n-o-t-z"
 

+1 letter: feminizations.

 

+2 letters: defeminization.

 

+3 letters: defeminizations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Feminization


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 65 6D 69 6E 69 7A 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01101001 01111010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#101 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#105 &#122 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0065 006D 0069 006E 0069 007A 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

407179758075926786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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