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The development of a woman's characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male

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Usage examples (37)
  • Many people are aware of the phenomenon known as feminization of poverty.
  • Parental leave, day care, the so-called feminization of our politics or the soccer moms -- it's real for these three women in Buffalo.
  • In the first year, researchers saw the same kind of feminization of male fish observed in the United States.
  • Sure "feminization" will stifle male joke telling, just as "masculinization" will stifle female joke telling.
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