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hyposexualization

hyposexualization noun: playing down or understating somebody's sexuality.

Noun

hyposexualization (uncountable)

  1. Playing down or understating somebody's sexuality.
    • The male sociobiological perspective […] perpetuates the hyposexualization of women and the hypersexualization of men.2001, Patricia Whelehan, An Anthropological Perspective on Prostitution, page 14
    • Narcissism could be in fact clinically linked to both forms of hyper- and hypo-sexualization, and it is actually sexual “anorexia,” this modern form of mystical asceticism, which Girard finds the most interesting to analyze.2015, Pierpaolo Antonello, Heather Webb, Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism

Forms of hyposexualization

alternative formhypo-sexualization

Origin of hyposexualization

From hypo- + sexualization.

Questions about hyposexualization

What does hyposexualization mean?
Hyposexualization means playing down or understating somebody's sexuality.
What part of speech is hyposexualization?
Hyposexualization is a noun.

Words near hyposexualization in the dictionary

  1. hyposerotonemia
  2. hyposerotonergic
  3. hyposexual
  4. hyposexualities
  5. hyposexuality
  6. hyposexualization
  7. hyposexuals
  8. hyposialylate
  9. hyposialylated
  10. hyposialylation
  11. hyposideremia

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