masculinize

English

Alternative forms

• masculinise

Etymology

From masculine +‎ -ize.

Verb

masculinize (third-person singular simple present masculinizes, present participle masculinizing, simple past and past participle masculinized)

1. (transitive) To make masculine; to give typically male characteristics.
   • 1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 11, →DOI, page 642:

     Returning to the sculptor described earlier, we know why that young woman suffered. She was housebound and bedbound, her face was changed by steroids, she was masculinized by her treatment, one breast was scarred, and she had almost no hair.

   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Impersonality always masculinizes a woman.

   • 2007 December 14, Peter L. Hurd, Allison A. Bailey, Patricia A. Gongal, Reginia H. Yan, John J. Greer, Silvia Pagliardini, “Intrauterine Position Effects on Anogenital Distance and Digit Ratio in Male and Female Mice”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:

     The global androgenization hypothesis predicts that neighboring males will masculinize both AGD and 2D:4D and, therefore, that AGD and 2D:4D will correlate within sexes.

   • 2018 May 31, Emanuella Grinberg, “What is medically necessary treatment for gender-affirming health care?”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Surgical interventions for gender dysphoria, according to WPATH, can include feminizing or masculinizing hormone therapy, voice therapy, chest augmentation and reduction, or genital surgery.

Synonyms

• manify
• masculize (rare)

Antonyms

• feminize

Derived terms

• masculinization

Translations

make (more) masculine

• Catalan: masculinitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 男性化 (naam⁴ sing³ faa³)

  Hokkien: 男性化 (lâm-sèng-hòa)

  Mandarin: 男性化 (zh) (nánxìnghuà)

• Finnish: maskuliinisoida
• French: masculiniser (fr)
• Galician: masculinizar
• German: vermännlichen (de), maskulinisieren
• Italian: mascolinizzare
• Korean: 남성화(男性化)하다 (namseonghwahada)
• Polish: maskulinizować impf, zmaskulinizować pf, umężczyźniać impf, umężczyźnić pf
• Portuguese: masculinizar (pt)
• Spanish: masculinizar (es)
• Swedish: maskulinisera (sv)

Galician

Verb

masculinize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of masculinizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

masculinize

1. inflection of masculinizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative