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Feminize vs Girlify - What's the difference?

feminize | girlify | Synonyms |

Feminize is a synonym of girlify.


As verbs the difference between feminize and girlify

is that feminize is to make more feminine while girlify is to make girly.

feminize

English

Alternative forms

* feminise

Verb

  • To make more feminine.
  • * 1962 , D J B Ashley , Human Intersex
  • Parabiosis experiments on primitive vertebrates showed inversion of sex in either direction, males were feminized and females masculinized.
  • To become more feminine.
  • Antonyms

    * masculinize

    girlify

    English

    Verb

  • To make girly.
  • * 1968 , Mildred Haun, The Hawk's Done Gone: And Other Stories (page 223)
  • She made George set in the playhouse with her, and he would do it, no matter how much Pa teased him and called him girlified and threatened to make him wear dresses.
  • * 2008 , Ben Agger, The Virtual Self: A Contemporary Sociology (page 138)
  • Men, who still run the patriarchy, are loving it; women are self-objectifying, girlifying themselves in their makeup, clothing, hair, and even their discourse – girl talk.

    Synonyms

    * feminize, feminise