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sexuality

Word definitions for sexuality in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sexuality is the third studio album by French artist Sébastien Tellier , released on 25 February 2008. The album was produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo , who is best known as one of the members of Daft Punk .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sexuality \Sex`u*al"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being distinguished by sex. --Lindley.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (rfex) that which is characterized or distinguished by sex 2 (rfex) sexual activity 3 (rfex) the concern with, or interest in sexual activity 4 (rfex) sexual potency 5 (rfex) sexual orientation 6 (rfex) sexual identity, gender 7 (rfex) sexual receptivity ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1789, "action or fact of being sexual;" see sexual + -ity . Meaning "capability of sexual feelings" is from 1879. Meaning "sexual identity" is by 1980.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE female ▪ I knew how to drop into the stereotypes we learn as female sexuality .... ▪ Indeed, this intelligent and controlled female sexuality is what makes human communities possible. ▪ What is strikingly absent ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus" [syn: sex , gender ]

Usage examples of sexuality.

Yet this ambivalence is not unique to cross-dressing, for when it comes to dealing with their sexuality people seem to want either therapy, catharsis, or pornography.

In general, Sartre was suspicious of psychoanalysis, put off by what he saw as dogmatic symbolism, mechanistic explanation, a preponderant role for the unconscious and sexuality, and an analytic method dividing the personality into hermetic components rather than attempting to comprehend it both in its singularity and, synthetically, as an indivisible totality.

Her interest in him surged, attracted by the blatant sexuality in his whisky-rich voice.

And these mythical machineries of evil Lolita narratives perpetuate a misogyny that imposes developmentally abnormal sexuality on some females and simultaneously punishes all females for any sexuality.

Lolita and bad female sexuality, a reading that then overdetermines the book, that imposes itself upon its own text.

All right, you could always overpaint and for the sake of attempting that glimpse of her sexuality, I would certainly do so once at least, but this was not a two-month painting or even a one-month painting.

What other results could have been expected when American society began to overvalue on the one hand security, censorship, an imagined world-saving idealism and self-sacrifice in war, and on the other hand insatiable hunger for possessions, fiercely competitive aggressiveness, sadistic male belligerence, contempt for parents and the state, and a fantastically overstimulated sexuality?

The words dared Annette to probe into the sexuality of a paraplegic, which, being old-world in that sense, Annette would not do.

It was there that he recruited participants for his amateur pornographic videos, there that he encouraged his wife to expand her list of clients, there that he would listen on the intercom system while she made love, or peep through the holes he had cut in the doors to watch, and there, too, that he would indulge his passion for perverted sexuality.

Tests on a wide range of subjects indicate that the automobile, and in particular the automobile crash, provides a focus for the conceptualizing of a wide range of impulses involving the elements of psychopathology, sexuality and self-sacrifice.

When monological thought turns nature into God, then spiritual liberation consists not in resurrecting a forgotten Spirit but in digging up a repressed sexuality.

Jon Sandell projected a raw sexuality that would have aroused a response in any woman.

Instead of declaring his sexuality, he is driven to adopt the pose of playboy, thus attracting the criticism reserved for transracial adulterers.

Had he truly been that adolescent, crouched breathless in an alley behind a dumpster, acknowledging for the first time the undeniable tropism of sexuality?

The two of them then danced the tandav, the great and terrible dance of procreation, awakening the entire universe with their tantric sexuality, and at the moment of their joining, by using the formidable energies unleashed by their union, Lord Brahma was able to restore Kama to his body.