English Explanatory Dictionary

sexuality

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.
  2. Sexual activity; concern with, or interest in, sexual activity.
  3. Sexual potency.
  4. Sexual orientation.
  5. Sexual identity, gender.

Pronunciation

/sɛk.ʃuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/ /sɛk.sjuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/ /sɛk.ʃuˈæ.lə.ti/ en-au-sexuality.ogg

Word forms

sexuality sexualities

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder. Proto-Italic *seksus Latin sexus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin sexuālis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās New Latin sexuālitāslbor. English sexuality Learned borrowing from New Latin sexuālitās. By surface analysis, sexual + -ity.

Antonyms

asexuality

Related words

sex sexual sensuality

Derived words

antisexuality asexuality autosexuality bisexuality cissexuality cosexuality cryptosexuality cybersexuality demisexuality ecosexuality ephebosexuality finsexuality flexisexuality gerontosexuality heterosexuality homosexuality hypersexuality hyposexuality intersexuality minsexuality neosexuality ninsexuality nonsexuality object sexuality omnisexuality orthosexuality pansexuality parasexuality pedosexuality playersexuality polysexuality pseudosexuality psychosexuality robosexuality same-sexuality sapiosexuality sexuality studies sociosexuality supersexuality technosexuality transsexuality unsexuality zoosexuality

Translations

Arabic: جِنْسِيَّة Bulgarian: сексуа́лност Bulgarian: по́ловост Catalan: sexualitat Chinese Mandarin: 性別 /性别 Danish: seksualitet Estonian: seksuaalsus Finnish: seksuaalisuus Finnish: sukupuolisuus Finnish: seksualiteetti German: Sexualität Greek: σεξουαλικότητα Hungarian: szexualitás Indonesian: seks Japanese: 性別 Japanese: セクシュアリティ Korean: 성별 Malayalam: ലൈംഗികത Norwegian Bokmål: seksualitet Norwegian Bokmål: sex Norwegian Nynorsk: seksualitet Polish: seksualność Portuguese: sexualidade Romanian: sexualitate Russian: разли́чие поло́в Russian: пол Northern Sami: seksualitehta Slovak: sexualita Swedish: sexualitet Tagalog: pagkasariin Telugu: లైంగికత Welsh: rhywioldeb
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