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other-sex

adj

Etymology

From other + sex, modelled after same-sex.

  1. derived from *séksus✻
  2. derived from *seksus✻
  3. derived from sexus — “gender; gender traits; males or females; genitals”
  4. derived from sexe — “genitals; gender”
  5. inherited from sexe — “sex 􂀿distinction between male and female􂁀 and gender”
  6. compounded as other-sex — “other + sex”

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to attraction to the opposite sex

    Of or pertaining to attraction to the opposite sex; heterosexual.

    • A rating of 0 represents exclusive other-sex (i.e., heterosexual) attractions, a rating of 6 represents exclusive same-sex (i.e., homosexual) attractions, and a rating of 3 represents equal degrees of same-sex and other-sex attractions.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for other-sex. 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