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Meaning of "feminisation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FEMINISATION

feminisation  [ˌfemɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FEMINISATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Feminisation 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 FEMINISATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Feminization

Feminization may refer to: ▪ Feminization, the hormonally induced development of female sexual characteristics ▪ Feminization, a sexual or lifestyle practice where a person assumes a female role ▪ Feminization, a perceived societal shift of gender roles toward the characteristically "female" ▪ Feminization of agriculture, the measurable increase of women's participation in agriculture ▪ Feminization of the face, a set of reconstructive surgical procedures that alter typically male facial features to bring them closer in shape and size to typical female facial features ▪ Feminization of language, the process of making a word or name female ▪ Feminization of migration, a trend where a higher rate of women migrate to labor or marriage ▪ Feminization of poverty, a phenomenon in which women represent disproportionate percentages of the world's poor ▪ Feminization of voice, the desired goal of changing a perceived male sounding voice to a perceived female sounding voice ▪ Feminisation of the workplace, the trend towards greater employment of women, and of men willing and able to operate with these more 'feminine' modes of interaction...

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FEMINISATION


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 FEMINISATION

feminality
feminazi
femineity
feminie
feminility
feminine
feminine ending
feminine hygiene
feminine rhyme
femininely
feminineness
femininism
femininity
feminise
feminism
feminist
feministic
feminity
feminization
feminize

WORDS THAT END LIKE FEMINISATION

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 feminisation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «feminisation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FEMINISATION

Find out the translation of feminisation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of feminisation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «feminisation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

女性化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

feminización
570 millions of speakers

English

feminisation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

feminisation
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تأنيث
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

феминизация
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

feminização
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

feminisation
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

féminisation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Feminisasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Feminisierung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

女性化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

여성화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Feminisasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nữ hóa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

feminisation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्त्रीत्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kadınlaşmasına
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

femminilizzazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

feminizacja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фемінізація
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

feminizare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θηλυκοποίηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vervrouliking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

feminisering
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

feminise
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of feminisation

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FEMINISATION»

The term «feminisation» is regularly used and occupies the 88.631 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FEMINISATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «feminisation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «feminisation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FEMINISATION»

Discover the use of feminisation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to feminisation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gender, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the Feminisation ...
Yet although popularisation of the term may have raised women's visibility in development discourses and gone some way to 'en-gender' policies for poverty reduction, the construct is only weakly substantiated. This work covers this topic.
Sylvia H. Chant, 2007
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The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, ...
Data on the 'feminisation of poverty' is particularly important because it combines two critical issues: gender inequality and poverty. But the two are not synonymous; gender inequality extends beyond the poor and, by its turn, poverty is not ...
Sylvia H. Chant, 2011
3
Reassessing Gender and Achievement: Questioning Contemporary ...
EXPLANATION 3: SCHOOLS ARE 'FEMINISED' AND THIS DISADVANTAGES BOYS A frequently made assertion about why boys underachieve is that it is a consequence of the 'feminisation' of schools and education. As Francis (2000a) and ...
Becky Francis, Christine Skelton, 2005
4
Women and Poverty in Ireland
Recent Research on Women and Poverty The feminisation of poverty, the male- female wage gap particularly as it relates to low pay, and what we might broadly term intra-household inequalities between men and women have been central ...
Brian Nolan, Dorothy Watson, 1999
5
French Today: Language in Its Social Context
Circulaire du 11 mars 1986 relative a la feminisation des noms de metier, fonction, grade ou titre Paris, le 11 mars 1986 Le Premier ministre, a Mesdames et Messieurs les ministres et secretaires d'Etat L'accession des femmes, de plus en ...
Carol Sanders, 1993
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Employment and Unemployment in India: Emerging Tendencies ...
It is thus seen that feminisation has been proceeding at two different levels — national and international. This chapter is organised as follows: Section 1 traces the origin and development of the concept of feminisation. In Section 2 a brief ...
E T Mathew, 2006
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Education and Masculinities: Social, Cultural and Global ...
classrooms with reference to the construction, performance and regulation of school girls' identities and subjectivities in relation to masculinity. Feminisation, schooling and late modernity: the limits of feminisation as sex-typing As argued in the ...
Chris Haywood, Mairtin Mac an Ghaill, 2013
8
Women in the World's Legal Professions
3.4 Magistrature and Barreau: Differing Patterns of Feminisation If the various branches of the legal profession have opened their doors to women at different stages in history, patterns of feminisation have also varied. The comparison between ...
Ulrike Schultz, Gisela Shaw, 2003
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Christian Masculinity: Men and Religion in Northern Europe ...
The contemporary preoccupation corresponds perfectly with the notion of a ' feminisation of piety'. Many scholars use this 'key concept in feminist historiography', which is equally important in the historiography of religion.3 Its validity has been ...
Yvonne Maria Werner, 2011
10
Women and the Teaching Profession: Exploring the ...
Examines how the teacher feminisation debate applies in developing countries.
‎2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FEMINISATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term feminisation is used in the context of the following news items.
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CMS Berlin September congress - win free tickets with ECJ
... is affected by a shortage of trained specialists, the phenomenon of worldwide feminisation and youth unemployment in southern Europe. «European Cleaning Journal, Jul 15»
2
Room for improvement in Saudi's HSE sector
... availability of quality healthcare and of course, the much welcomed 'feminisation' of the workplace - so why does H&S still lag so far behind? «Construction Week Online, Jul 15»
3
Game, set and match. . . Beeb succeeds in dumbing down Wimbledon
They could go one better and reinstate Inverdale too — but the feminisation of sports presenting has not yet, for the BBC, reached its zenith. «The Sunday Times, Jul 15»
4
From Tory nazis to feminised Conservatives. An academic view of …
But it is now possible this truth will become apparent to any scholar who regards the desirability, indeed the necessity, of the feminisation of ... «Conservative Home, Jun 15»
5
GM Wheat Trial Failure
The implications of this 'feminisation' of these lizard populations and a warming climate could become a concern. Sounds Of Space Dr Lucie Green listens in to ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
6
June 29: Premier has to act over lorry attacks
... June 22) could well have hit upon just one more facet of life in Britain today that confirms the march towards the feminisation of all aspects of ... «Yorkshire Post, Jun 15»
7
Andy Murray's women have made him
That they've had a positive influence on this once surly Scot is clear: insiders tell me that the “feminisation” of his game is one of the talking ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
8
How to treat Caitlyn Jenner with respect
Q:I heard on the news that Caitlyn Jenner recently had some surgeries, including “facial feminisation” surgery. Does that mean it's okay to ask a ... «Independent Online, Jun 15»
9
Laverne Cox Publicly Speaks About Refusal To Have Facial …
Orange Is The New Black star Laverne Cox has publicly spoken about her decision not to have facial feminisation surgery. The actress, who ... «Huffington Post UK, Jun 15»
10
Early humans had to become more feminine before they could …
They referred to this as craniofacial feminisation, meaning that as Homo sapiens slimmed down their skulls became flatter and more “feminine” ... «The Conversation UK, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Feminisation [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/feminisation>. May 2024 ».
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