asexual

From a- (“lacking, without”) +‎ -sexual.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /eɪˈsɛkʃuəl/

asexual (not comparable)

1. Not sexual in nature, not marked by sexual activity. (Compare 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.

2. Not experiencing sexual attraction; lacking interest in or desire for sex.
   • 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.

3. (biology) Having no distinct sex, having no sexual organs.
4. (biology) Without sexual action; reproducing by some other method than sex.

   asexual reproduction

• (not experiencing sexual attraction): ace (slang), asexy (slang), hyposexual
• (without sexual features): epicene

• allosexual

• (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexual (-ity, ace), bisexual (-ity, bi), demisexual (-ity), 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) ^{(Category: en:Sexual orientations)}

asexual (plural asexuals)

1. (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.

2. A person who does not experience sexual attraction; a person who lacks interest in or desire for sex.

• allosexual

• (romantic orientations) romantic orientation; aromantic (-ism), biromantic (-ism), demiromantic, heteroromantic (-ism), homoromantic (-ism), panromantic (-ism), transromantic ^{(Category: en:Romantic orientations)}
• fission, gemmation

asexual (masculine and feminine plural asexuals)

1. asexual

asexual m or f (plural asexuals)

1. asexual

• sexual

• asexualitat

• Rhymes: -al

asexual m or f (plural asexuais)

1. asexual

asexual m or f (plural asexuais)

1. asexual

• sexual

a +‎ sexual.

asexual (not comparable)

1. (uncommon) asexual

• asexuell

• asexual in Duden online

English asexual

• IPA^(key): [aseksuˈal]

asexual m or n (feminine singular asexuală, masculine plural asexuali, feminine and neuter plural asexuale)

1. asexual

asexual m (plural asexuali)

1. asexual

• asexualitate

• Rhymes: -al

asexual (plural asexuales)

1. asexual

asexual m or f (plural asexuales)

1. asexual

• sexual