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sexuality|sɛksjuːˈælɪtɪ|
[ad. mod.L. *sexuālitās: see sexual a. and -ity. Cf. F. sexualité.]
1. The quality of being sexual or having sex.
a1800Cowper Wks. (1836) VII. 320 It is on their sexuality that he has built his poem [Loves of the Plants]. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 325 The wonderful diversity of forms..to which mere sexuality gives rise amongst insects. 1882–4Cooke Brit. Fresh-w. Algæ I. 63 Larger cœnobia,..with daughter-cœnobia enclosed within the mother, evolved without sexuality.
b. (See quot.)
1888Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VI. 436/2 According to a strict biological definition sexuality is the characteristic of the male and female reproductive elements (genoblasts), and sex of the individuals in which the reproductive elements arise. A man has sex, a spermatozoon sexuality.
2. Possession of sexual powers, or capability of sexual feelings.
1879J. M. Duncan Dis. Wom. xxvii. (1889) 223 In removing the ovaries, you do not necessarily destroy sexuality in a woman. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 191 Precocious sexuality..interferes with normal mental growth.
3. Recognition of or preoccupation with what is sexual; pl. (nonce-use), allusions to sexual matters.
1848Kingsley Yeast viii, Paradise and hell..as grossly material as Mahomet's, without the honest thorough-going sexuality, which you thought made his notion logical and consistent. 1893C. A. Clarke Knobstick xiii. 137 Under the unsteady inspiration of..alcohol, there was rude and uproarious bawling of music hall ditties..and chuckling sexualities were tossed to and fro.
4. Appearance distinctive of sex.
1908S. A. Cook Relig. Anc. Palestine iii. 29 [The Astarte⁓plaques] offer a large variety of types from the coarsest exaggeration of sexuality to highly conventionalised forms.
▸ A person's sexual identity in relation to the gender to which he or she is typically attracted; the fact of being heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual; sexual orientation.
1897H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex I. 156 Social opinion is most amply adequate to deal with the manifestations of inverted sexuality. 1958N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 16 Mar. 5/1 Torn between his love for an intelligent, sympathetic French girl, Solange, and a haunting attraction to his top sergeant..he is held captive by..a brutal reality demanding that he define his own sexuality or face damnation. 1989TV Times 14 Oct. 98/4 There is no need to suffer in silence wondering about your sexuality and whether you are a lesbian. 2002R. Goldstein Attack Queers ii. 52 One popular belief held that you could tell a guy's sexuality by the way he danced. |