sexuality
sexu·al·ity (sek′s̸ho̵̅o̅ al′ə tē)
noun
- the state or quality of being sexual
- interest in or concern with sex
- sexual drive or activity
sexuality
n.
Sexual drive or interest
lust, sensuality, passion; see desire 3.Sexual character
femininity, masculinity, homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, gender, sexual preference.
Possessives
- woman: In the meantime, however, men are finding women's sexuality hard to grasp.
- someone: This is an explicit reaction to someone's sexuality or gender identity.
- person: It certainly doesn't denote a person's sexuality - not in all cases.
Converse of object
- burgeon: Her plan to hook up with an acquaintance falling through, she is forced to live by her wits and burgeoning sexuality.
- emerge: People's experience of their emerging sexualities was discussed.
- gender: His research interests are hate crime and policing, gender, sexuality and criminal justice, crime and popular culture.
- express: Expressing sexuality A tracheostomy involves an alteration in the normal body functioning of breathing, which requires some adaptation to an altered body image.
- regard: Consequently, we continue to struggle with questions regarding sexuality.
- understand: What do you think - do you understand sexuality to be definitive in a person's humanity?
Adjective modifier
- infantile: A new aetiological proposition emerges from the isolation of the new conceptual operator of infantile sexuality and the castration complex.
- feminine: But the film is more than just a ' frank ' portrayal of feminine middle-aged sexuality.
- female: In Once Were Warriors female sexuality also poses such a threat to Jake Heke: Jake winking at her.
- adolescent: This article reveals different conceptions and management of adolescent sexuality among white, middle-class American and Dutch parents of teenagers.
- ambiguous: Some talk of it being a gray area, or of ambiguous sexuality.
- teenage: The French government is increasingly concerned with some trends in teenage sexuality.
Modifies a noun
- debate: Firstly, I have recently veered away from likening the sexuality debate to the male/female debate.
- and/or: Phallic ( 36 % ) you appear to have negative issues regarding sexuality and/or have an uncertain sexual identity.
Noun used with modifier
- adult: For the child is simply unable to understand the nature of adult sexuality.
There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.
Congratulations and bouquets keep pouring in, as if the role of sexuality had been suddenly recognised by His Majesty, the interpretation of dreams confirmed by the Council of Ministers, and the necessity of the psychoanalytic therapy of hysteria carried by a two- thirds majority in Parliament.
Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.
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