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Emasculate vs Defeminize - What's the difference?

emasculate | defeminize |

As verbs the difference between emasculate and defeminize

is that emasculate is to deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld while defeminize is to lose, or to remove feminine characteristics or qualities.

As an adjective emasculate

is deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.

emasculate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.

    • Verb

    (emasculat)
  • To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld.
  • To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
  • * V. Knox
    • Luxury had not emasculated their minds.

    defeminize

    English

    Verb

    (defeminiz)
  • To lose, or to remove feminine characteristics or qualities