sexuality

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sex gender eroticism sensuality libido sexual orientation sexual desire sexual preference eros hotness desire flesh passion persuasion lust
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Antonyms

asexuality good manliness honor integrity morality
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Hypernyms

physiological property

Hyponyms

masculinity androgyny bisexuality maleness hermaphroditism femaleness

Related terms

sexual sex

Phrases with the word

object sexuality lacking sexuality same-sexuality pan-sexuality sexuality and reproduction biology of human sexuality

Examples

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. Andrea Dworkin

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. Karl Kraus

The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy. Germaine Greer

Sexuality is an expression of our spirituality. Sex makes you get real. Pamela Anderson

Homosexuality appears as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species. Michel Foucault

I think if you take sexuality very seriously it becomes very oily. Shahrukh Khan

Close letter words and terms

sexualism sexualist sexualistic sexuality and reproduction sexuality studies sexualizable