Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun masculinisation

1 sense of masculinisation

Sense 1
masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation -- (the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction))
       => growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")