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feminizing

feminizing is the present participle and gerund of feminize.

Meaning of feminize

Verb

feminize (third-person singular simple present feminizes, present participle feminizing, simple past and past participle feminized)

  1. (transitive) To make (more) feminine.
    • Parabiosis experiments on primitive vertebrates showed inversion of sex in either direction, males were feminized and females masculinized.1962, Human Intersex, D J B Ashley
  2. (intransitive) To become (more) feminine.

Adjective

feminizing (comparative more feminizing, superlative most feminizing)

  1. Tending to make more feminine.
    • Tumours of the adrenal cortex which secreted feminizing hormones […]1962, D. J. B. Ashley, Human Intersex

Forms of feminizing

comparativemore feminizing
superlativemost feminizing

Words formed from feminizing

Questions about feminizing

What does feminizing mean?
Feminizing means tending to make more feminine.
What is feminizing the present participle and gerund of?
Feminizing is the present participle and gerund of feminize.
What part of speech is feminizing?
Feminizing is an adjective.

Words near feminizing in the dictionary

  1. feminize
  2. feminized
  3. feminizer
  4. feminizers
  5. feminizes
  6. feminizing
  7. femino-
  8. feminocentric
  9. feminocentrism
  10. feminocracies
  11. feminocracy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: feminizing (page history and authors); feminize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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