phallicize

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verb

To make phallic.

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Meanings

verbphallicize (third-person singular simple present phallicizes, present participle phallicizing, simple past and past participle phallicized)

present singular third person phallicizes · participle present phallicizing · participle past phallicized · past phallicized

  1. transitiveTo make phallic.

    De Marsay has been drafted into a sexual theater: he exists only to phallicize an absent woman lover.

    1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
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    The libido, formerly accumulated in the fantasied phallus, leaves this central source and gradually phallicizes the real body; that is, it spreads throughout this body, with the isolated exception of the so-called genital zone.

    1998, Juan-David Nasio, translated by Susan Fairfield, Hysteria from Freud to Lacan, page 49

Origin

From phallic + -ize.

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APA

phallicize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phallicize

MLA

“phallicize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phallicize. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “phallicize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phallicize.

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