graysexuality
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From gray + asexuality, equivalent to graysexual + -ity.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɡɹeɪ.sɛk.ʃuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/, /ˌɡɹeɪ.sɛk.sjuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɡɹeɪ.sɛk.ʃuˈæ.lə.ti/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ælɪti
- Hyphenation: gray‧sex‧u‧al‧i‧ty
Noun
graysexuality (uncountable)
- The quality of being graysexual.
- Synonym: gray asexuality
- 2015, Julie Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality, →ISBN:
- As with graysexuality and grayromanticism, demisexual is not the same thing as demiromantic.
- 2015 October 20, Kirstin Kelley, “What Is 'Graysexuality'?”, in AlterNet:
- So far there isn’t a lot of data about how many people identify as graysexual, but creating language that describes being grasexual is necessary if we ever hope to grasp what graysexuality really looks like.
- 2016 March 31, Pallavi Bansal, “Find out if you're an asexual”, in Times of India:
- Graysexuality falls somewhere between asexuality and sexuality; these people may or may not have a sex drive.
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See also
- (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), polysexual (-ity), sapiosexual (-ity), androsexual (-ity), gynesexual (-ity) (Category: en:Sexual orientations)
- (romantic orientations) romantic orientation; aromantic (-ism), biromantic (-ism), demiromantic (-ism), heteroromantic (-ism), homoromantic (-ism), panromantic (-ism), transromantic (Category: en:Romantic orientations)