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sexual
/sɛk.ʃu.əl/
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What does sexual mean?
adjective
- Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes.
- Capable of sexual reproduction; sexed, sexuate.
- Pertaining to sexual intercourse or other intimate physical contact.
More meanings (6)
adjective
- Characterised by sexual feelings or behaviour; possessing sexuality.
- Pertaining to sexuality as a cultural phenomenon; relating to sexual behaviour or conduct.
- (rare) Experiencing sexual attraction; not asexual.
- (obsolete) Pertaining to the female sex.
noun
- A species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
- A person who experiences sexual attraction, a person who has interest in or desire for sex (especially as contrasted with an asexual).
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IPA pronunciation
/sɛk.ʃu.əl/
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The whole drift of modern religious feeling is against this exaggeration of sexual feeling, these moods of sexual slavishness, in spiritual things.
The male and female sexual elements seem to be affected before that union takes place which is to form a new being.
More book examples (3)
But it is also partly due to the effects of use under civilization, and, above all, to what evolutionists call sexual selection.
Before concluding the chapter on sexual conditions, we must say a word about hysteria, which so very frequently has deceived the judge.
A peculiar fact as regards this case was the statement of the father that he himself had had sexual indulgence at eight.