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Sissify vs Sissification - What's the difference?

sissify | sissification |

As a verb sissify

is to make sissy; to emasculate.

As a noun sissification is

(pejorative) the act or process of sissifying.

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

    sissification

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (pejorative) The act or process of sissifying.