monosexualityn.
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)ˌsɛkʃʊˈalᵻti/, /ˌmɒnə(ʊ)ˌsɛksjʊˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəˌsɛkʃəˈwælədi/ 1. Biology. The condition of having reproductive organs of one sex only.
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the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > state or condition of having characteristics of one sex only
unisexuality1857
monosexuality1910
1910 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Three Contrib. to Sexual Theory 7 The conception which we gather from this long known anatomical fact is the original predisposition to bisexuality, which in the course of development has changed to monosexuality, leaving slight remnants of the stunted sex.
1967 Science 29 Sept. 1566/3 The origin of monosexuality in Poecillopsis also seems best explained by hybridization.
2. The condition of having members of one sex predominant. rare.
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1958 B. Magee Go west, Young Man ii. 43 Yale has female graduate students, but no female teachers or undergraduates. This monosexuality is Yale's biggest fault.
3. The condition of having sexual relations in which one seeks to gratify only oneself. rare.
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1970 Diogenes 72 61 The major change today is the adoption of mono-sexuality by women... A woman sexually autonomous,..who has educated herself to be self-gratifying.
4. The state or condition of being sexually attracted to members of one sex only. Opposed to bisexuality.
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1982 J. Culler On Deconstruction (1983) ii. 173 In ‘Sorties’ Hélène Cixous contrasts man's neurotic fixation on a phallic monosexuality with woman's bisexuality.
1995 M. Garber Vice Versa iii. xvi. 369 The question of monogamy versus nonmonogamy is completely separate from the question of monosexuality versus bisexuality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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