genderize

English

Alternative forms

• genderise

Etymology

From gender +‎ -ize.

Verb

genderize (third-person singular simple present genderizes, present participle genderizing, simple past and past participle genderized)

1. (transitive) To bestow gender upon; to make male or female, or assign masculine or feminine qualities to.
   • 1981 April 4, Signe A. Dayhoff, “Sexist Language: You Become Your Label”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

     By genderizing words, society makes sex-discrimination a requirement. Thus, when one sex is stipulated, the other is excluded.

   • 2002, Helene P Foley, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy:

     Yet the implications of implicitly genderizing ethical positions in these particular plays may be even more far reaching than it appears on the surface.

Antonyms

• degenderize

Derived terms

• degenderize
• overgenderize

Translations

to bestow gender upon

• Finnish: sukupuolittaa

Anagrams

• energized