Sexualize

Quick meaning: Sexualize is a verb meaning (transitive) To render sexual, or apply sex appeal to (a person, thing, or concept).

Meaning

(transitive) To render sexual, or apply sex appeal to (a person, thing, or concept).

More Meanings

1. (biology, transitive) To distinguish as belonging to separate sexes.

Example Sentences

Children’s beauty pageants sexualize childhood.

Your advertising doesn't need to sexualize goods and services to sell them to me, and in fact I might make a point of not buying your product if you pester me with sexualization.

[…] the adoption of the veil by Muslim women in West European countries is often justified as a mark of their autonomy, a breakaway from the sexualizing influences of Western culture.

I have charted a change from a Victorian culture that spiritualized love to modern efforts to sexualize love. The latter contributed, more-over, to the development of a culture of eroticism.

Word Forms

• sexualizes
• sexualizing
• sexualized
• sexualise

Synonyms for sexualize

Depending on context, synonyms include sex.

Antonyms for sexualize

Common opposites include desexualize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sexualise, sexify, sensualize, eroticize, homosexualize, sensualise.

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