different between feminize vs feminizer

English

Alternative forms

• femininize, femininise, feminise

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?m?na?z/

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To make (more) feminine.
   • 1962, D J B Ashley, Human Intersex

     Parabiosis experiments on primitive vertebrates showed inversion of sex in either direction, males were feminized and females masculinized.

2. (intransitive) To become (more) feminine.

Synonyms

• femalize

Antonyms

• masculinize, masculinise
• masculize, masculise

Derived terms

• feminization

Translations

English

Etymology

feminize +? -er

Noun

feminizer (plural feminizers)

1. One who or that which feminizes.
   • 1910, The Sewanee Review (volume 18, page 307)

     Yet the feminizers of American life, and more particularly those feminizers of the polls who seek to confer the franchise upon women, harp upon the idea that the female was in some remote past a dominant factor in organic life.

2. (biology) Any substance that causes feminization.