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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ambi- +‎ sexual, influenced by bisexual

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • 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.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • Californian college kids try to uncover an apocalyptic conspiracy while pursuing their busy schedule of drug-fuelled ambisexual hedonism.

    2011 in cinema: Broken Britain v animals 2011

  • 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.

    Robert Hutchins was correct. | clusterflock 2009

  • 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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