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Emasculate vs Sissify - What's the difference?

emasculate | sissify |

In transitive terms the difference between emasculate and sissify

is that emasculate is to deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness while sissify is to make sissy; to emasculate.

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.

    sissify

    English

    Verb

  • To make sissy; to emasculate.
  • * 1929 , Society for the Advancement of Education, School & society, Volume 29
    • ...there does seem, from this study, basis for a not uncommon charge that American schools tend to baby and sissify the boys.
  • * 1994 , J. M. Bernstein, The Frankfurt School: critical assessments, Volume 6
    • The trick was to find means of positioning a male consumer which did not feminize, emasculate or sissify him.

    Related terms

    * sissification