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feminization
1. The action of making feminine.
2. The giving of a feminine inflexion to a word.
3. The process by which a condition or activity becomes especially or increasingly associated with women; as in the phrase, feminization of poverty. Originally and chiefly a U.S. term.
4. In bioloby, the assumption of female sexual characteristics (by a male animal or plant); the occurrence of female sexual characteristics in a person who is genetically male.
2. The giving of a feminine inflexion to a word.
3. The process by which a condition or activity becomes especially or increasingly associated with women; as in the phrase, feminization of poverty. Originally and chiefly a U.S. term.
4. In bioloby, the assumption of female sexual characteristics (by a male animal or plant); the occurrence of female sexual characteristics in a person who is genetically male.
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-ation, -ization (-iz[e] + -ation); -isation (British spelling variation)
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fem-, femi-
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