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monosexual

adj

Etymology

From mono- + sexual. In the second sense, by analogy with bisexual.

  1. borrowed from sexuālis
  2. prefixed as monosexual — “mono + sexual”

Definitions

  1. Composed of, or relating to, only one sex.

    • On the other hand, he did not go to a monosexual [all-boys] school as I did, as Isherwood and his kind did.

  2. Sexually attracted to members of only one sex or gender.

    • How are we to understand the erasure of bisexuality in some of the fundamental works of queer deconstructive theory? […] a reliance on monosexual gay/lesbian historiography […]

  3. A monosexual person.

    • Letitia, I fear, is a monosexual. Only men arouse her.
    • While monosexuals (gay men, heterosexuals, and lesbians) tend to describe being attracted to people of only one gender, bisexuals tend to disregard gender when assessing attractions to others.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for monosexual. 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