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Meaning of "desexualization" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DESEXUALIZATION

desexualization  [diːˌsɛksjʊəlaɪˈzeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESEXUALIZATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Desexualization is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DESEXUALIZATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of desexualization in the English dictionary

The definition of desexualization in the dictionary is the removal of the sexual characteristics of something. Other definition of desexualization is depriving of sexual characteristics by the surgical removal of the testicles or ovaries; castrate or spay.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DESEXUALIZATION


authorization
ˌɔːθəraɪˈzeɪʃən
characterization
ˌkærɪktəraɪˈzeɪʃən
civilization
ˌsɪvɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
customization
ˌkʌstəmaɪˈzeɪʃən
globalization
ˌɡləʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hospitalisation
ˌhɒspɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hospitalization
ˌhɒspɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hybridization
ˌhaɪbrɪdaɪˈzeɪʃən
localization
ˌləʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
novelization
ˌnɒvəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
optimisation
ˌɒptɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən
optimization
ˌɒptɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən
organisation
ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən
organization
ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən
realization
ˌrɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
specialization
ˌspeʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
stabilization
ˌsteɪbɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
synchronization
ˌsɪŋkrənaɪˈzeɪʃən
utilization
ˌjuːtɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
visualization
ˌvɪʒʊəlaɪˈzeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESEXUALIZATION

desertic
desertification
desertify
desertion
desertisation
desertization
desertless
deserts
deserve
deserved
deservedly
deservedness
deserver
deserving
deservingly
deservingness
desex
desexualisation
desexualise
desexualize

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESEXUALIZATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of desexualization in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «desexualization» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DESEXUALIZATION

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The translations of desexualization from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «desexualization» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

desexualization
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desexualización
570 millions of speakers

English

desexualization
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

desexualization
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

desexualization
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

десексуализации
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dessexualização
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

desexualization
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

désexualisation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Diseseksalisasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Entsexualisierung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

desexualization
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

desexualization
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Desexualization
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

desexualization
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

desexualization
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लिंगभेद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eşeysizleştirme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

desessualizzazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

desexualization
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

десексуалізації
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

desexualization
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

desexualization
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

desexualization
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avsexualisering
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

desexualization
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of desexualization

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESEXUALIZATION»

The term «desexualization» is used very little and occupies the 190.980 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DESEXUALIZATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about desexualization

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESEXUALIZATION»

Discover the use of desexualization in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to desexualization and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Desexualization in American Life
Originally published as The New People, this classic volume examines the great changes in popular culture that unfolded in the 1960s with major steps toward political, racial, gender, and social empowerment.
Charles Winick
2
Papers on Psychoanalysis
Freud speaks of desexualization very graphically: "When the ego assumes the features of the object (by identification), it forces itself, so to speak, upon the id as a love object and tries to make good the loss of that object by saying: 'look, I am ...
Hans W. Loewald, 1989
3
Freud's Concept of Repression and Defense: Its Theoretical ...
Every such identification is in the nature of a desexualization or even of a sublimation." (1923, p. 80.) These quotations leave unclear the exact relationship between desexualization and sublimation. A later passage from 1924, which is ...
Madison, 1999
4
Cultivating Freud's Garden in France
One of its aspects is desexualization. Braunschweig and Fain do not refer to it in a more systematic way, and when the term comes up, it is in the context of the pathology of the totally desexualized personality organization of patients suffering ...
Marion Michel Oliner, 1988
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The Problem of Perversion: The View from Self Psychology
Sexualization. and. Desexualization. It is a paradox that psychoanalysis, which has so often been considered as founded on the recognition of sexuality, should itself struggle to make clear the concept of sexualization that at its simplest ...
Arnold Goldberg, 1995
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Freud and Philosophy : 'An Essay on Interpretation
We have, therefore, a continuous three-term sequence: desexualization, identification, sublimation. At this point, we have moved away from our initial basis: sublimation is no longer seen as a perverse infantile component that has deviated ...
Paul Ricoeur, 2008
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On the Early Development of Mind
Secondly, observation of the phenomena of transitory sublimations in normal states and of their regression or mobility in pathological states is a useful preliminary to study of processes such as 'desexualization'. The mobility supports the idea ...
Edward Glover, 2009
8
Different Sexual Worlds: Contemporary Case Studies of Sexuality
Herbert Marcuse, in Eros and Civilization (1974), describes how civilization requires the sublimation of sexual expression and virtually insists on the desexualization of modern man. According to Marcuse, this desexuali- zation or repression of ...
Dick Skeen, 1999
9
The First Freudians
21 Along with this goes a desexualization of the impulses, a kind of sublimation, and this important process gives rise to interesting problems. Freud hints that it is due to the giving up of sexual aims implied in the change from allo-erotic into ...
Hendrik M. Ruitenbeek, 1977
10
The Blind Man Sees: Freud's Awakening and Other Essays
Identification occurs concurrently with a desexualization or sublimation, and it takes place after the erotic component no longer has power to bind the destructiveness that was combined with it. The destructiveness defuses into the superego ...
Neville Symington, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESEXUALIZATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term desexualization is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Sexual Liberation Is for White Women, According to 'Orange Is the …
The portrayal of mammies cannot be ignored because the desexualization of Black women and their apparent undying loyalty to the ... «RH Reality Check, Jul 15»
2
Keenan-Bolger and Sullivan's Birds & the Bees: Unabridged Will …
... the desexualization of aging women, today's "hook-up" culture, and sexual health. The show played a run at University Settlement last year. «TheaterMania.com, Jun 15»
3
Is the 'Panic' Over Sexting Really Warranted?
Although Hasinoff concedes that the ACLU was sympathetic to the teens, the lawyers' exclusive focus “on desexualization and innocence—that ... «RH Reality Check, May 15»
4
How 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' Is Subverting the Gay Best …
Hollywood planted seeds that suggested that effeminacy was akin to gay irrelevance, to desexualization. After it was clear that the “gay best ... «Flavorwire, Mar 15»
5
Dear Men, Stop Telling Me 'Real Women Have Curves'
... Ideal" of female appearance, it was about what that ideal symbolizes: asceticism, perfect, unobtrusive femininity, and yes, desexualization. «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
6
Dear Men: My Eating Disorder Was Never About You, So Stop …
... Ideal” of female appearance, it was about what that ideal symbolizes: asceticism, perfect, unobtrusive femininity, and yes, desexualization. «Bustle, Feb 15»
7
TCA Winter 2015: Quick Takes From Fox's TCA Presentation
Hard to imagine that “Sleepy Hollow” can recover from the desexualization of Ichabod Crane, who was such a romantic hero in Season 1. «Seat42F, Jan 15»
8
Pop culture helps change minds on gay rights
“There are people on the gay left who deeply regret the trend toward assimilation and desexualization,” said Paul Robinson, an emeritus ... «The Seattle Times, Jan 15»
9
A Feminist Filmmaker Explains Why She Wants To Be Topless
#FreeTheNipple claims to seek the desexualization of the female nipple through normalizing its presence (“maybe that's what America needs, ... «BuzzFeed News, Dec 14»
10
Mass Nude Artist Looks How to Shoot in Moscow
"It is a desexualization of the body," he continues, "I am returning the body to art. The art and the process give us time to appreciate the body ... «The Moscow Times, Dec 14»

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