asexuality
The state or quality of being asexualThe state or quality of being asexual: The quality of experiencing little or no sexual attraction.
» Their culture's relative asexuality attracts you.
Meaning
3 sensesThe state or quality of being asexual:
(uncountable, usually)The quality of experiencing little or no sexual attraction.
Asexualität
асексуа́льностьaseksuálʹnostʹ
асексуальні́стьaseksualʹnístʹ
(uncountable, usually)The quality of lacking a sex or sexual organs.
having no evident sex or sex organs
(uncountable, usually)The quality (of a species or organism) of reproducing asexually.
Examples
3 sentencesTheir culture's relative asexuality attracts you.
You are attracted to their culture's relative asexuality.
Maybe, just maybe, as people get older, there is a tendency towards asexuality.
Translations
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Origin
From a- (“lacking, without”) + sexuality, equivalent to asexual + -ity.From a- (“lacking, without”) + sexuality, equivalent to asexual + -ity.
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Forms
plural: asexualities| Singular | asexuality |
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uncountable
Synonyms
2 synonyms- having no evident sex or sex organs:sexlessness
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable