| 释义 |
desexualize, v.|diːˈsɛksjuːəlaɪz|
[f. de- + sexual + -ize.]
trans. a. To deprive of sex or sexual characters; to deprive of the distinctive qualities of a sex. So deˈsexualized ppl. a.
1894Idler Sept. 195 The most highly cultured, mentally most richly endowed women I have known—not desexualised. 1919M. K. Bradby Psycho-Analysis 50 They regard all human energy as sexual, or ‘libido’, though Jung holds that it may become de-sexualised by turning from a sexual aim to non-sexual surrogate. 1926Spectator 19 June 1038/2 The self-flatterer..desexualizes the human form that he may pride himself on his idealization of it. 1940Mind XLIX. 352 Thus the ‘conclusion’ that every thirst for knowledge is a ‘desexualised’ form of sexual curiosity is not an unwarranted generalisation but either an inexcusable linguistic eccentricity or a fruitful linguistic modification. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Feb. 90/2 Later adolescent pictures show a normal interest in sex, but both boys and girls become fashion-plate types, essentially desexualized. 1969P. A. Robinson Freudian Left 207 Intensification of genital sexuality..left the body essentially desexualized.
b. To castrate.
1913in Dorland Med. Dict. (ed. 7). |