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English
Etymology
From a- (“lacking, without”) + -sexual.
Pronunciation
Adjective
asexual (not comparable)
- Nonsexual in nature, unmarked by sexual activity.
- Coordinate term: platonic
2004, Martha Vicinus, Intimate Friends: women who loved women, 1778-1928, page 150:The central paradox of Linton's writing was her inability, or unwillingness, to imagine an asexual friendship between women.
- (especially of a person) Not experiencing sexual attraction; lacking interest in or desire for sex.
- Synonyms: (slang) ace, (slang) asexy, a-spec
2010, Jerrold S. Greenberg, Clint E. Bruess, Sarah C. Conklin, Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality, fourth edition, pages 357-358:Many asexual people experience attraction, but feel no need to act out that attraction sexually. Because they don't see a lack of sexual arousal as a problem to be corrected, asexual people focus their energy on enjoying other types of arousal and pleasure.
2021 March 21, Jamie Waters, “‘I don’t want sex with anyone’: the growing asexuality movement”, in The Observer:Benoit is determined to ensure other asexual (or “ace”) people don’t feel broken or alone in a world in which lust and desire pulsate through our entire culture.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:asexual.
- (biology) Lacking distinct sex, lacking sexual organs.
- Synonym: epicene
- (biology) Without sexual action; reproducing by some other method than sex.
- asexual reproduction
Antonyms
Coordinate terms
- (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexual (-ity, ace), bisexual (-ity, bi), demisexual (-ity, demi), graysexual (-ity), heterosexual (-ity, straight), homosexual (-ity, gay, lesbian), omnisexual (-ity), pansexual (-ity, pan), plurisexual (-ity), polysexual (-ity), robosexual (-ity), sapiosexual (-ity), androsexual (-ity), gynesexual (-ity), vegansexual (-ity) (Category: en:Sexual orientations)
Derived terms
Translations
having no interest in sex
having no distinct sex
- Belarusian: бяспло́цевы (bjasplócjevy), бяспо́лы (bjaspóly)
- Bulgarian: безпо́лов (bg) (bezpólov)
- Czech: bezpohlavní
- Danish: ukønnet, aseksuel
- Dutch: geslachtloos (nl), aseksueel (nl)
- Esperanto: neseksa
- Finnish: sukupuoleton, aseksuaalinen (fi)
- French: asexué (fr), asexuel (fr)
- Galician: asexuado m
- German: geschlechtslos (de)
- Greek: άφυλος (el) (áfylos)
- Hungarian: aszexuális (hu), ivartalan (hu)
- Icelandic: kynlaus
- Italian: asessuato (it)
- Japanese: 無性の (ja) (むせいの, musei no)
- Kazakh: жыныссыз (jynyssyz)
- Macedonian: бесполен (bespolen)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ukjønnet, aseksuell
- Nynorsk: ukjønna, aseksuell
- Polish: bezpłciowy (pl)
- Portuguese: assexuado (pt)
- Russian: беспо́лый (ru) (bespólyj)
- Slovak: asexuálny (sk), bezpohlavný, nepohlavný
- Tagalog: asog
- Turkish: aseksüel (tr)
- Ukrainian: безстате́вий (uk) (bezstatévyj)
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Noun
asexual (plural asexuals)
- (biology) A species which reproduces by asexual rather than sexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
- 2009, Isa Schön, Giampaolo Rossetti, Koen Martens, Darwinulid Ostracods: Ancient Asexual Scandals or Scandalous Gossip?, published as Chapter 11 of Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis, Isa Schön, Koen Martens, Peter van Dijk (editors), page 221:
- 11.2 Demonstrating the Status of Long-Lived Asexuals
- Indeed, if sex has so many advantages, then which special adaptations - if any - allow long-term survival without it? However, the main task of the research teams dealing with such putative ancient asexuals has thus far been to demonstrate that their respective groups (mainly bdelloids, darwinulids and certain lineages within orbatid mites) indeed merit the status.
- A person who does not experience sexual attraction; a person who lacks interest in or desire for sex.
- (rare) Something which does not have a sex, or a word which refers to such a thing.
1936, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 35, page 323:[…] The masculine forms are used to a considerable extent in congruence with etymologically masculine nouns; also with etymologically feminine asexuals; e.g. se stefn L 9, 36; [...] The neuter forms are used with etymologically neuter nouns; with etymologically masculine asexuals; e.g. þ cyrtil L 6, 29; J 19, 23; þ penning L 20, 24; bēam (Lindelof p. 9) ; stān (Lindelof p. 11); and with etymologically feminine asexuals; e.g. [...]
Antonyms
Translations
a person who does not experience sexual attraction
something which does not have a sex
Usage notes
See also
Catalan
Pronunciation
Adjective
asexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural asexuals)
- asexual
Noun
asexual m or f by sense (plural asexuals)
- asexual
Antonyms
Related terms
Galician
Pronunciation
Adjective
asexual m or f (plural asexuais)
- asexual
Noun
asexual m or f by sense (plural asexuais)
- asexual
Antonyms
Further reading
German
Etymology
a + sexual.
Pronunciation
Adjective
asexual (strong nominative masculine singular asexualer, not comparable)
- (uncommon) asexual
Declension
Positive forms of asexual (uncomparable)
Related terms
Further reading
- “asexual” in Duden online
- “asexual” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English asexual. Equivalent to a- + sexual.
Pronunciation
Adjective
asexual m or n (feminine singular asexuală, masculine plural asexuali, feminine and neuter plural asexuale)
- asexual
Declension
Noun
asexual m (plural asexuali)
- asexual
Declension
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
From a- + sexual.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aseɡˈswal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: a‧se‧xual
Adjective
asexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural asexuales)
- asexual
Derived terms
Noun
asexual m or f by sense (plural asexuales)
- asexual
Further reading