sexual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
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 sexuālisbor.
English sexual
Borrowed from Latin sexuālis. By surface analysis, sex + -ual.
Inflected forms:
form: more sexual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sexual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sexuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes.
pos: adj
examples: Women face sexual discrimination in the workplace.
gloss: Capable of sexual reproduction; sexed, sexuate.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to sexual intercourse or other intimate physical contact.
pos: adj
examples: Giving oral sex is my favorite sexual act.
The church was tighening up on matters sexual. Until the middle of the tenth century it had been quite routine for priests to be married.
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
“When you’re not numbing out with substances and suddenly you’re face to face with somebody you want to be sexual with, that can be really scary at first,” said Laura Rademacher, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Minneapolis who offers a class on sober sex in her practice.
gloss: Characterised by sexual feelings or behaviour; possessing sexuality.
pos: adj
examples: She's a very sexual woman.
We don't often think of Jesus as a sexual person, but He certainly was not asexual. He was not just God on earth. He was fully human and […] He was sexual, single, and celibate.
gloss: Pertaining to sexuality as a cultural phenomenon; relating to sexual behaviour or conduct.
pos: adj
examples: a sexual innuendo
one's sexual preferences
gloss: Experiencing sexual attraction; not asexual.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: […] “You know, there are asexuals with sexual partners.” His ears flicked, and he grinned. “There's things both of us can try to do[…]”
Izzy tells me that at her high school the most useful distinction is not between heterosexuals and homosexuals but between those who are sexual and those who are not. The abstainers call themselves “aces,” short for “asexuals.”
gloss: Pertaining to the female sex.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: [T]he inquiry is whether she have reason or not. If she have, which, for a moment, I will take for granted, she was not created merely to be the solace of man, and the sexual should not destroy the human character.
gloss: A species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who experiences sexual attraction, a person who has interest in or desire for sex (especially as contrasted with an asexual).
pos: noun
examples: The findings suggest that asexuality is best conceptualized as a lack of sexual attraction; however, asexuals varied greatly in their experience of sexual response and behavior. Asexuals partnered with sexuals acknowledged having to 'negotiate' sexual activity.
In this article we use absence of sexual attraction to others as a definition but recognise that this definition is contested. […] [A survey] was also advertised online (without explicitly mentioning asexuality in the advert), thus aiming to reach a mixture of asexuals and sexuals.
Related words: sex
Derived words: androsexual
antisexual
asexual
autosexual
bisexual
chemosexual
cissexual
consexual
contrasexual
cosexual
cybersexual
demisexual
ecosexual
ephebosexual
erotosexual
esexual
eusexual
finsexual
flexisexual
genetic sexual attraction
gray-sexual
graysexual
gynesexual
have sexual relations
heterosexual
hobosexual
homosexual
hypersexual
hyposexual
intersexual
intrasexual
isosexual
lithsexual
malsexual
matrisexual
minsexual
monosexual
morosexual
multisexual
necrosexual
ninsexual
nonsexual
non-sexual
objectum-sexual
omnisexual
orthosexual
other-sexual
pan-sexual
pansexual
parasexual
patrisexual
pedosexual
perisexual
persistent sexual arousal syndrome
plurisexual
polysexual
pomosexual
pornosexual
postsexual
presexual
protosexual
pseudosexual
psychosexual
quasisexual
robosexual
sapiosexual
schizosexual
sextual
sexual abuse
sexual act
sexual anorexia
sexual anorexic
sexual appetite
sexual assault
sexual cannibalism
sexual capital
sexual climax
sexual complex
sexual congress
sexual dichromatism
sexual dichronism
sexual dimorphism
sexual diversity
sexual division of labour
sexual dysfunction
sexual education
sexual favor
sexual favour
sexual fraternization
sexual harassment
sexual headache
sexual identity
sexual intercourse
sexual inversion
sexualism
sexualist
sexualistic
sexuality
sexualization
sexualize
sexual literacy
sexually
sexual majority
sexual marketplace
sexual market value
sexual maturity
sexual method
sexual mimicry
sexual minority
sexual misconduct
sexualness
sexual offender
sexualogy
sexual orientation
sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts
sexual orientation change efforts
sexual partner
sexual play
sexual politics
sexual predator
sexual preference
sexual reassignment
sexual reassignment surgery
sexual relation
sexual relations
sexual reproduction
sexual revolution
sexual selection
sexual slavery
sexual tension
sexual union
sexual violence
smexual
sociosexual
subsexual
supersexual
suprasexual
transsexual
trisexual
ubersexual
unisexual
unsexual
urethrosexual
urinosexual
vegansexual
xenosexual
zoosexual
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: جِنْسِيّ
roman: jinsiyy
lang: Armenian
word: սեռական
roman: seṙakan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: cinsi
lang: Belarusian
word: пло́цевы
roman: plócjevy
lang: Belarusian
word: сэксуа́льны
roman: seksuálʹny
lang: Belarusian
word: палавы́
roman: palavý
lang: Bulgarian
word: сексуа́лен
roman: seksuálen
lang: Bulgarian
word: по́лов
roman: pólov
lang: Catalan
word: sexual
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 性的
roman: xìng de
lang: Czech
word: pohlavní
lang: Czech
word: sexuální
lang: Danish
word: seksuel
lang: Dutch
word: seksueel
lang: Esperanto
word: seksa
lang: Esperanto
word: amora
lang: Estonian
word: sugu-
lang: Estonian
word: seksuaalne
lang: Faroese
word: kynsligur
lang: Finnish
word: sukupuolinen
lang: Finnish
word: seksuaalinen
lang: French
word: sexuel
lang: Galician
word: sexual
lang: Georgian
word: სექსუალური
roman: seksualuri
lang: Greek
word: σεξουαλικός
roman: sexoualikós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀφροδίσιος
roman: aphrodísios
lang: Hebrew
word: מִינִי
roman: miní
lang: Hungarian
word: ivaros
lang: Indonesian
word: seksual
lang: Italian
word: sessuale
lang: Japanese
word: 性的
roman: seiteki
lang: Kazakh
word: жыныстық
roman: jynystyq
lang: Korean
word: 성적인
roman: seongjeog-in
lang: Korean
word: 성의
roman: seong-ui
lang: Latin
word: sexualis
lang: Macedonian
word: полов
roman: polov
lang: Macedonian
word: сексуа́лен
roman: seksuálen
lang: Malayalam
word: ലൈംഗിക
roman: laiṅgika
lang: Maltese
word: sesswali
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: seksuell
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: seksuell
lang: Occitan
word: sexual
lang: Pashto
word: جنسي
roman: jinsi
lang: Iranian Persian
word: جِنْسی
roman: jensi
lang: Polish
word: płciowy
lang: Polish
word: seksualny
lang: Portuguese
word: sexual
lang: Romanian
word: sexual
lang: Russian
word: полово́й
roman: polovój
lang: Russian
word: сексуа́льный
roman: sɛksuálʹnyj
lang: Northern Sami
word: seksuála
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: се̏ксуа̄лан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sȅksuālan
lang: Slovak
word: pohlavný
lang: Slovak
word: sexuálny
lang: Slovene
word: seksualen
lang: Slovene
word: spolen
lang: Spanish
word: sexual
lang: Swedish
word: sexuell
lang: Swedish
word: sex-
lang: Tajik
word: ҷинсӣ
roman: jinsi
lang: Ukrainian
word: стате́вий
roman: statévyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: сексуа́льний
roman: seksuálʹnyj
lang: Arabic
word: جِنْسِيّ
roman: jinsiyy
lang: Armenian
word: սեռային
roman: seṙayin
lang: Belarusian
word: пло́цевы
roman: plócjevy
lang: Belarusian
word: палавы́
roman: palavý
lang: Bulgarian
word: по́лов
roman: pólov
lang: Catalan
word: sexual
lang: Czech
word: pohlavní
lang: Czech
word: sexuální
lang: Danish
word: køns-
lang: Danish
word: kønslig
lang: Estonian
word: sugu-
lang: Faroese
word: kynsligur
lang: Finnish
word: sukupuolinen
lang: Finnish
word: sukupuoli-
lang: Georgian
word: სქესობრივი
roman: skesobrivi
lang: Ancient Greek
word: γενετήσιος
roman: genetḗsios
lang: Hungarian
word: nemi
lang: Hungarian
word: szexuális
lang: Icelandic
word: kynferðisleg
lang: Indonesian
word: seksual
lang: Macedonian
word: полов
roman: polov
lang: Pashto
word: جنسي
roman: jinsi
lang: Iranian Persian
word: جِنْسی
roman: jensi
lang: Polish
word: płciowy
lang: Portuguese
word: sexuado
lang: Romanian
word: sexual
lang: Russian
word: полово́й
roman: polovój
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: се̏ксуа̄лан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sȅksuālan
lang: Slovak
word: pohlavný
lang: Slovene
word: spolen
lang: Swahili
word: kijinsia
lang: Swedish
word: sexuell
lang: Swedish
word: könlig
lang: Swedish
word: köns-
lang: Ukrainian
word: стате́вий
roman: statévyj
lang: Vietnamese
word: tình dục