eunuchism

Latin eunuchismus (“act of unmanning”), equivalent to eunuch +‎ -ism.

eunuchism (uncountable)

1. The condition of being a eunuch.
   • 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:

     Again, that Eunuchism (not in itself, but) for the Kingdom of Heaven, is better than it, we doubt not.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 123:

     A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped.

• eunuchry

• eunuch

• “eunuchism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French eunuchisme.

eunuchism n (uncountable)

1. eunuchism