psychosexual
adjective
psy·cho·sex·u·al ˌsī-kō-ˈsek-shə-wəl 
-shwəl,
-shəl
1
: of or relating to the mental, emotional, and behavioral aspects of sexual development
2
: of or relating to mental or emotional attitudes concerning sexual activity
3
: of or relating to the physiological psychology of sex
psychosexually adverb
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Come for the social commentary but stay for the critique of heteronormativity’s psychosexual perversion. 
Lea Anderson, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022 Pierpoint is a place where fresh-faced Oxford grads woo new business while sharing party drugs, colleagues engage in sadistic psychosexual dynamics with one another, and information about fireable behavior is used mostly as a bargaining chip. Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 There’s a lot of psychosexual layering to peel back here, in other words, or there would be if Lyne were more fully in control of his material. Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022 These specialists are known as 'psychosexual therapists' because they are trained to look at both the mind and body in their approach to treating conditions like vaginismus. Ella Glover, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2022 There’s a lot of psychosexual wheel-spinning revolving around characters who are, by design, defined exclusively by their trauma. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022 It’s a modern-day psychosexual fable of co-dependency and abusive relationships between a young woman and a big bear, to be lensed as a chamber drama with touches of horror and magic realism. Annika Pham, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022 Meat Loaf was showing them and us the path into the provocative, put-on ’80s — Madonna with her three-minute psychosexual cinematic dramas, a generation of hair-metal dudes with longer hair and tighter pants, girls writhing on the hood of a car. Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022 The upcoming series is based on the iconic 1987 psychosexual thriller of the name, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 20 Jan. 2022 See More
Lea Anderson, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022 Pierpoint is a place where fresh-faced Oxford grads woo new business while sharing party drugs, colleagues engage in sadistic psychosexual dynamics with one another, and information about fireable behavior is used mostly as a bargaining chip. Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 There’s a lot of psychosexual layering to peel back here, in other words, or there would be if Lyne were more fully in control of his material. Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022 These specialists are known as 'psychosexual therapists' because they are trained to look at both the mind and body in their approach to treating conditions like vaginismus. Ella Glover, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2022 There’s a lot of psychosexual wheel-spinning revolving around characters who are, by design, defined exclusively by their trauma. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022 It’s a modern-day psychosexual fable of co-dependency and abusive relationships between a young woman and a big bear, to be lensed as a chamber drama with touches of horror and magic realism. Annika Pham, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022 Meat Loaf was showing them and us the path into the provocative, put-on ’80s — Madonna with her three-minute psychosexual cinematic dramas, a generation of hair-metal dudes with longer hair and tighter pants, girls writhing on the hood of a car. Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022 The upcoming series is based on the iconic 1987 psychosexual thriller of the name, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 20 Jan. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1892, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Medical Definition
psychosexual
adjective
psy·cho·sex·u·al ˌsī-kō-ˈseksh-(ə-)wəl, -ˈsek-shəl
1
: of or relating to the mental, emotional, and behavioral aspects of sexual development
2
: of or relating to mental or emotional attitudes concerning sexual activity
3
: of or relating to the psychophysiology of sex