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phallicize

phallicize verb: to make phallic.

Verb

phallicize (third-person singular simple present phallicizes, present participle phallicizing, simple past and past participle phallicized)

  1. (transitive) To make phallic.
    • De Marsay has been drafted into a sexual theater: he exists only to phallicize an absent woman lover.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
    • The libido, formerly accumulated in the fantasied phallus, leaves this central source and gradually phallicizes the real body; that is, it spreads throughout this body, with the isolated exception of the so-called genital zone.1998, Juan-David Nasio, translated by Susan Fairfield, Hysteria from Freud to Lacan, page 49

Forms of phallicize

third-person singular presentphallicizes
present participlephallicizing
past participlephallicized
pastphallicized

Origin of phallicize

From phallic + -ize.

Questions about phallicize

What does phallicize mean?
Phallicize means to make phallic.
What part of speech is phallicize?
Phallicize is a verb.
What is the past tense of phallicize?
The past tense of phallicize is phallicized.

Words near phallicize in the dictionary

  1. phallicist
  2. phallicists
  3. phallicity
  4. phallicization
  5. phallicizations
  6. phallicize
  7. phallicized
  8. phallicizes
  9. phallicizing
  10. phallicness
  11. phalliform

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