sexuality

noun
/sɛk.ʃuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/UK/sɛk.ʃuˈæ.lə.ti/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder. Proto-Italic *seksus Latin sexus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin sexuālis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās New Latin sexuālitāslbor. English sexuality Learned borrowing from New Latin sexuālitās. By surface analysis, sexual + -ity.

  1. derived from *séks-u-sder
  2. derived from *sek-der

Definitions

  1. The quality of being sexual

    The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sexuality. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sexuality. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at sexuality

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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