英和和英

発音

• IPA: /kæˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən
• ハイフネーション: ca‧stra‧tion

名詞

castration (countable and uncountable, plural castrations)

1. (surgery) The act of removing the testicles.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 125:

     Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.

   • 2019, “A Rape of Sirens”, performed by Infant Annihilator, Alex Terrible:

     The harlots' harmony echos within our cave of castration
     Accenting the weeps from the men remade as women; stripped of their appendages
     Probed and beaten
     A cult of deviant savages seducing bastards in the darkness

2. (figuratively) Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.

同意語

• (surgery): orchiectomy

派生語

関連する語

• castrate
• castrati

参考

• emasculation
• testiclectomy
• desex
• geld
• neuter
• spay

アナグラム

• action star, arctations