Synonyms for circumcision
ˌsɜr kəmˈsɪʒ əncir·cum·ci·sion

Princeton's WordNet

1. Circumcision, Feast of the Circumcision, January 1noun

   (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st

2. circumcisionnoun

   the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite

3. circumcisionnoun

   the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males

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1. • Roman Catholic
   • Abscission
   • Feast Day
   • Rite

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1. List of paraphrases for "circumcision":

   excision

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1. circumcision

   Synonyms:
   Apellious

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1. Kimihiko Moriya:

   Circumcision is not a universally accepted custom.

2. Mala Seyyed Hasan Vazhi:

   Female circumcision does nothing but hurt your daughter's body, this practice must stop.

3. Jonathan Friedman:

   People are not OK with a 4-year-old boy being circumcised -- a conscious, articulate boy. That's just not OK, not everyone is against circumcisions, but I think everyone is against a 4-year-old's circumcision.

4. Selahattin Demirtas:

   According to Cemil Cicek these people do not have problems regarding language, culture or faith, all is about the circumcision. If that is really the problem and if you are so interested we can appoint you as the "government circumciser" and send you to Kandil (PKK HQ in northern Iraq) to solve it. (On the quote of Cemil Cicek, speaker for AKP: "Some of those PKK terrorists without circumcision should tell you a lot about the issue")

5. Lauren Young:

   It looked like it had been cut and sewn back on, not a normal-looking scar from circumcision. Something didn't look normal.