Lexic.us

Definition of Sexuality

1. Noun. The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles. "She didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"

Definition of Sexuality

1. n. The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

Definition of Sexuality

1. Noun. (rfex) that which is characterized or distinguished by sex ¹

2. Noun. (rfex) sexual activity ¹

3. Noun. (rfex) the concern with, or interest in sexual activity ¹

4. Noun. (rfex) sexual potency ¹

5. Noun. (rfex) sexual orientation ¹

6. Noun. (rfex) sexual identity, gender ¹

7. Noun. (rfex) sexual receptivity ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sexuality

1. [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Sexuality

1. The constitution of an individual in relation to sexual attitudes or activity. (12 Dec 1998)

Literary usage of Sexuality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1890)
"A careful survey of the living world leads to the conclusion that sexuality has been, in all probability, one of the many results of the operation of the ..."

2. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"Sexuality is one of them. However, not until the decade of the 1970's did the behavioral and emotional aspects of sexuality become an acceptable area for ..."

3. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1922)
"All possible psychical and physical deficiencies, especially neurasthenic, are able to impair his weakened sexuality, homologous though it may have been ..."

4. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"The same result is reached by a consideration of the fact that sexuality is apparently ... If it be also remembered that the simplest forms of sexuality, ..."

5. The Analysis of Racial Descent in Animals by Thomas Harrison Montgomery (1906)
"B. Sexuality And this brings us up to the meaning of the phenomenon known as ... Sexuality of individuals exists only in association with conjugation; ..."

6. The Analysis of Racial Descent in Animals by Thomas Harrison Montgomery (1906)
"B. Sexuality And this brings us up to the meaning of the phenomenon known as ... Sexuality of individuals exists only in association with conjugation; ..."

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