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Neutering vs Emasculate - What's the difference?

neutering | emasculate |

As verbs the difference between neutering and emasculate

is that neutering is while emasculate is to deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld.

As a noun neutering

is the act by which something is neutered.

As an adjective emasculate is

deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.

neutering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is neutered.
    • The vet performed neuterings on four cats.

    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.