hypersexualize
English
Alternative forms
- hypersexualise ^^
Etymology
hyper- + sexualize
Verb
hypersexualize (third-person singular simple present hypersexualizes, present participle hypersexualizing, simple past and past participle hypersexualized)
- To make extremely sexual; to accentuate the sexuality of
- 2009, January 18, “Manohla Dargis And A. O. Scott”, in How the Movies Made a President:
- Yet even as he stood as a not-so-benign emblem of black power, erotic and otherwise, the hypersexualized black male also became fodder for white exploitation.
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Derived terms
- hypersexualization
Related terms
- hypersexuality