emasculation
nounEtymology From emasculate + -ion.
1
Medicine, Sciences The removal of the penis, testicles, and scrotum of (a male person or animal).
2
The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
3
The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigour or effectiveness.
- The authoritarian regime oversaw the total emasculation of the country's judiciary.
- Derived terms
- auto-emasculation
- Related terms
- emasculate, effemination, feminine, masculine
- Hypernyms
- castration