demisexual
adj/ˌdɛ.miːˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/UK/ˌdɛ.miˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/US
Etymology
From demi- (“half”) + -sexual.
Definitions
Sexually attracted to people only after a strong emotional bond has been formed.
- Some people may identify as asexual for a period and then decide that they are in fact demisexual, or even sexual.
- Some think of themselves as demisexual, only able to feel attraction when a very strong emotional bond already exists.
- In asexual / ace communities in the past few years, there has been an enormous increase in prominence of people identifying as gray-A and as demisexual, with ‘ace’ now sometimes being used as an umbrella term.
A person who is demisexual.
- Demisexuals experience sexual attraction as a consequence of romantic attraction but not independently of it.
- Rines identified himself as a demisexual, meaning that he is only sexually attracted to a person once a strong emotional attachment has been formed.
The neighborhood
- synonymdemi
- antonymfraysexual
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for demisexual. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA