Meaning

4 senses

  1. Experiencing sexual attraction; not asexual.

  2. (Canada, uncommon)LGB; queer; non-heterosexual.

  3. Directed toward or involving another person rather than (only) oneself.

  4. Involving or directed at the other biological sex; heterosexual; not isosexual.

Origin

From allo- (“other”) + sexual. "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" a

From allo- (“other”) + sexual. "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual. The sense "non-heterosexual" was influenced by (and had influence on) Canadian French allosexuel.

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Synonyms

4 synonyms
sexualB2allozedsexualother-sexual

Antonyms

6 antonyms
asexualaceheterosexualautosexualisosexualhomosexual

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
allocateallocationallophoneallotC2allotmentC2allowA2allowanceB1
allosexual — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto