Definition of Nonsexual

1. Adjective. Not having or involving sex. "Asexual reproduction"

Exact synonyms: Asexual
Attributes: Gender, Sex, Sexuality
Similar to: Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agamous, Apomictic, Parthenogenetic, Fissiparous, Neuter, Sexless, Vegetal, Vegetative
Derivative terms: Asexuality
Antonyms: Sexual

Definition of Nonsexual

1. a. Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.

Definition of Nonsexual

1. Adjective. Not sexual; unconcerned with sex or sexuality. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nonsexual

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonsexual

nonserum
nonservant
nonservants
nonserver
nonservile
nonserving
nonsessile
nonsettlable
nonsettleable
nonsettled
nonsevere
nonshadowed
nonshaking
nonshallow
nonshaman
nonshamanic
nonshamanistic
nonshamans
nonshameful
nonshaped

Literary usage of Nonsexual

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

1. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1920)
"The nonsexual cycle goes on by geometric progression from the first ... Some think that sporozoites of sexual and nonsexual character are injected at the ..."

2. Child Sexual Abuse: Intervention and Treatment Issues by Kathleen C. Faller (1995)
"... Indicator for All Children 27 nonsexual Behavioral Indicators of Possible Sexual Abuse 27 nonsexual Behavioral Indicators in Young Children 27 nonsexual ..."

3. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1920)
"They have been found in lowly organized plants and animals in which nonsexual reproduction is the rule or in which sexual reproduction is not known to occur ..."

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