Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a sexual orientation to persons of either sex; bisexual.
- adjective Suited to either sex; unisex.
- noun An ambisexual person.
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- adjective
Bisexual : attracted to persons of either sex. - adjective
Unisex : fit for persons of either sex. - adjective slang Of
ambiguous sexual orientation . - noun An ambisexual person.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Quetzal has never been to the States, but he spent time in Montreal studying fashion design and living as a “hippie” in what he describes as an ambisexual, drug-addled three-way relationship “No es el sexo, es la persona”.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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Quetzal has never been to the States, but he spent time in Montreal studying fashion design and living as a “hippie” in what he describes as an ambisexual, drug-addled three-way relationship “No es el sexo, es la persona”.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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Quetzal has never been to the States, but he spent time in Montreal studying fashion design and living as a “hippie” in what he describes as an ambisexual, drug-addled three-way relationship “No es el sexo, es la persona”.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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Dr. [[Alfred Kinsey]] developed a scale that ranks sexual desires from 0-6, describing those desires that are neither exclusively hetero - or homosexual as "ambisexual" or bisexual.
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Dr. [[Alfred Kinsey]] developed a scale that ranks sexual desires from 0-6, describing those desires that are neither exclusively hetero - or homosexual as "ambisexual" or bisexual.
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In 2008 he told the US magazine Out that it was possible to discuss "sexuality without using labels", and has not previously identified a term to use when describing his sexual preference, leading some commentators to coin neologisms such as 'ambisexual' and 'gaybe'.
PinkNews.co.uk 2009
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His central character is Smith Thomas Dekker, a good-looking ambisexual college student at what appears to be one of the newer California state colleges.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Kaboom Marshall Fine 2011
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Californian college kids try to uncover an apocalyptic conspiracy while pursuing their busy schedule of drug-fuelled ambisexual hedonism.
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My Wonder Years (from eighteen to twenty-one) were split between studies at a university whose undergraduate curriculum was strict, uniform, traditional, and kind of ... hard — and extracurricular hours spent in a druggy, ambisexual, glitter-rocky haze.
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A stylish thriller with real complexity, people with interesting faces, a sensational actress cast as an ambisexual Goth hacker heroine — the news about "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" is nothing but good.
'Greenberg': Losers' Winning Love Story Joe Morgenstern 2010
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