🚻 To reduce masculinity ✂️ To castrate

to demasculinize

1 8.8

Make a person or place less masculine

verb
/ˌdiːˈmæs.kjʊ.lɪ.naɪz/

: feminizar

The professor argued that advertising often seeks to demasculinize men by portraying them as emotionally vulnerable.

Examples

Many parents worry that certain media can demasculinize their sons by promoting passive behaviors.
They are the voice of the opposition, and their job is to really demasculinize men.
Some believe that modern parenting trends may inadvertently demasculinize young boys by discouraging traditional play.

Synonyms

to feminize

vsto demasculinize

3 7.2

To make a person or thing more like a woman

focuses on reducing masculine traits rather than becoming feminine

to unsex

vsto demasculinize

Archaic

1 9.9

To remove sexual parts or qualities from a living thing

reduces masculine qualities specifically rather than erasing sexual traits

to effeminize

vsto demasculinize

9.9

To make someone seem more like a woman in appearance and behavior

is about removing or reducing masculine character rather than adding feminine ones

to womanize

vsto demasculinize

Archaic

9.6

To give a more feminine style to a person or thing

targets loss of masculine features rather than adding womanly traits

Antonyms

to masculinize

8.8

To give a person or thing a more male appearance

How Masculine

to soften

50 3.1

to demasculinize

1 8.8

to feminize

3 7.2

Surface Forms

demasculinize infinitive

demasculinized past

demasculinized past participle

demasculinizing present participle

demasculinizes third person singular

Morphology

demasculinize = masculinize (transparent) = de + masculine + ize

Given the verb 'masculinize', adding 'de-' straightforwardly signals reversal or removal of masculine qualities.

Etymology

Demasculinize comes from the part de- meaning 'remove' and masculine meaning 'male'. So to demasculinize a person, place, or thing is to make it less 'masculine' by reducing male qualities or the way it looks.