homosexualizationn.
/ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˌsɛkʃʊəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˌsɛkʃᵿlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˌsɛksjʊ(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˌsɛkʃʊəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˌsɛksjʊ(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˌsɛkʃᵿlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌhoʊməˌsɛkʃ(əw)əˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌhoʊmoʊˌsɛkʃ(əw)əˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌhoʊməˌsɛkʃ(əw)ələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌhoʊmoʊˌsɛkʃ(əw)ələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action or process of making someone or something homosexual in nature, character, associations, etc.; an instance of this.
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1928 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex VII. vii. 398 There is among civilized women a tendency to abandon the squatting position [sc. for urination]... This need not be regarded..as a sign of the masculinization, or still less the homosexualization, of women.
1942 Amer. Imago 3 9 It seems inevitable that the minute and rigid education apparatus [sc. in Nazi Germany]..will end in a ‘homosexualization en masse’.
1979 New Statesman 4 May 648/2 The homosexualisation of all sexuality is perhaps a feature of the post-pill world.
1998 N.Y. Mag. 19 Oct. 75/1 The homosexualization of great heterosexual love stories proceeds apace.
2014 M. Rahman Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures & Modernity iv. 71 This critique of contemporary Western homosexualization..goes to the heart of contemporary politics of queer and Muslim identities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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