Sexualize vs Oversexualize - What's the difference?
sexualize | oversexualize |
To sexualize excessively.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 15, author=Andrew Adam Newman, title=Unilever Shuns Stereotypes of Women (Unless Talking to Men), work=New York Times
, passage=The latest iteration of Unilever’s “Real Beauty” advertising campaign for Dove products, which celebrates women of all shapes and sizes, urges girls to reject the underfed and oversexualized images of women that dominate advertising. }}
As verbs the difference between sexualize and oversexualize
is that sexualize is to make sexual while oversexualize is to sexualize excessively.oversexualize
English
Verb
(oversexualiz)citation