Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking sexual characteristics; neuter.
- adjective Lacking in sexual interest or activity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having, or as if having, no sex; not sexed; neuter as to gender.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no sex.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not having a
gender ;neuter . - adjective Not having any
sexual relations.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no sexual desire
- adjective sexually unattractive
- adjective having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
Etymologies
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Examples
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In comparison it seemed downright serious and not very fun, and Jolie's case, kind of sexless, which is weird considering her character is based off of Catwoman.
The Documentary Blog 2009
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However, I would hope that, since it is now legal in NSW to identify as sexless, there will be harsher legal consequences for those who do discriminate against people outside of the male/female binary.
“Sex Not Specified”: Victory for Norrie May-Welby « Gender Across Borders 2010
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"Newsweek" latest cover in fact covers the nations dwindling sex drive; 15 to 20 percent of marriages are defined as sexless, where sex is rare, if nonexistent.
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Then in July 2003, the front cover of Newsweek called sexless marriages an "epidemic."
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Dr. Kunio Kitamura: I doubt whether the word "sexless" was publicly aired as much as it was during the past year.
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I agree that women are still seen as "sexless" and thus women changing together is non-sexual while a male in there would make it sexual becuase ONLY the male would be looking, the females would have NO interest in the guy sexually at all!
Girly Boys: boys who have gendered girl interests and boys on girl's teams. Elizabeth McClung 2008
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According to experts, your marriage is "sexless" if you have sex 10 times a year or less.
Are you one of the 40 million Americans who live in a sexless marriage? Ann Althouse 2008
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Perhaps they should also consider the possible repercussions of having a "sexless" God.
C of E: Calling God 'He' encourages wife-beating Argent 2006
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Equally worrying, he said, is the increase in the number of married couples who are officially recognised as "sexless," meaning they have not had sex for more than one month.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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And an educator from England observed that “the boy in America is not being brought up to punch another boy’s head or to stand having his own punched in a healthy and proper manner; that there is a strange and indefinable air coming over the man; a tendency toward a common, if I may call it, sexless tone of thought.”
Failing at FAIRNESS Myra David Sadker 2003
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