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allosexual

What is another word for allosexual? Here is its meaning, with related words and examples.

Adj — Able to feel sexual attraction to other people; not asexual.

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1. adj

Able to feel sexual attraction to other people; not asexual.

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2. adj

(informal) Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or otherwise not heterosexual.

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3. adj

Attracted to, or involving, people of the opposite biological sex; heterosexual.

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Etymology

From allo- (“other”) + sexual. "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual. The sense "n...

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