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sex
  1. (countable) A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.
  2. (countable) Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles.
  3. (countable) The members of such a category, taken collectively.
  4. (uncountable) The distinction and relation between these categories, especially in humans; gender.
  5. (literary) Women; the human female sex and those who belong to it.
  6. (uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier.
  7. (countable, euphemistic or slang) Genitalia: a penis or vagina.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “It would not be inaccurate to suggest that sex is essential for the continuation of the human species.”
      “Your sex can play a significant role in determining your physical and mental constitution.”
      “At some stage, parents should talk to their children about sex.”
sexuality
  1. That which is characterized or distinguished by sex.
  2. Sexual activity; concern with, or interest in, sexual activity.
  3. Sexual potency.
  4. Sexual orientation.
  5. Sexual identity, gender.
  6. Sexual receptivity.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “No longer need she be forced to fight her sexuality, fear it, or feel anxiety about it or guilt. She could now utilize it, revel in it, express it, joyfully, to her heart's content.”
      “It's also a film filled with much sexuality and a good deal of homoeroticism.”
      “Rather, such a film would have to happily violate conventions of generic sexuality by explicitly eroticizing alternative sexualities for a non-alternative, unsuspecting, uncurious, and unsympathetic audience.”
sexism
  1. The belief that people of one sex or gender are inherently superior to people of the other sex or gender.
  2. Different treatment or discrimination based on a difference of sex or gender.
  3. Disadvantage or unequal opportunity arising from the cultural dominance of one gender over the other.
  4. Promotion or expectation or assumption of people to behave in accordance with or deviate from a gender role.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The conference discussed the impact of sexism, racism, homophobia, and the war on women.”
      “Such people will inevitably bring their racism and sexism into the jury room.”
      “Those at the top of society fan ideas of nationalism, racism and sexism that divide people.”
sexualism
  1. The belief that one set of sexual behaviors is intrinsically superior to another set of sexual behaviors.
  2. Sexual prejudice or discrimination; discrimination against people with a different sexual preference based on that belief.
sexual
  1. (biology) A species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
  2. (LGBT) A person who experiences sexual attraction, a person who has interest in or desire for sex (especially as contrasted with an asexual).
  3. Synonyms:
sexercise
  1. Sexual exercise; the performance of sexual activity as a means of promoting health and fitness.
  2. Exercise that is directed towards the improvement of sexual performance.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Now some choose to use sexercise to get rid of the weight, and those are the ones that every male crew member hopes to get and keep.”
      “Sir Tom also recently warned that if the BBC didn't convince Sexercise singer Kylie to return, the show would be in serious trouble.”
      “Meanwhile, Kylie has defended her new video Sexercise, which sees her in a girlon-girl clinch and gyrating on an exercise ball.”
sexuation
  1. Sexuality, regarded as a logically coherent attribute of either gender rather than a fixed attribute of each.
sexist
sexualist
  1. (botany) One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnaeus.
sexer
  1. Agent noun of the verb, to sex; one who determines the sex of living things.
sexiness
  1. The state or quality of being sexy, of possessing the traits of sexual appeal
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Brandon was aroused by her sexiness, her sensual style.”
      “Their mocking, svelte sexiness made even this pallid romp almost bearably romplike.”
      “In this role, he effectively squashes most of the intelligence and sexiness that he has demonstrated in the past.”
sexualisation
  1. Alternative spelling of sexualization
  2. Examples:
    1. “Today Lithuania finds itself in front of this community because it wants to protect children from the sexualisation of society.”
      “The firms' organizational structures reinforce this segregation through the sexualisation of jobs and the naturalization of professional qualities.”
      “The cause must be the pornification of culture and increasing sexualisation of pre-adolescent girls.”
sexualization
  1. The act or process of sexualizing.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The media's relentless sexualization of women perpetuates harmful stereotypes and objectification.”
      “Early sexualization fits with early autonomization of children as consumers.”
      “However, there's another issue when you raise the question of eroticism, auto-eroticism or sexualization.”
sexualiser
  1. Alternative form of sexualizer
sexification
sexualizer
  1. One who sexualizes
  2. Examples:
    1. “But if we base our thinking in the more exotic possibility of a feminist sexualizer, these two aspects of harassment no longer fit so neatly together.”
sexualness
  1. Quality of being sexual.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Without that present immediately after the acts of sexualness there are feelings of some dissatisfaction of self.”
      “It is to avoid such state effects that scholar activists have articulated sexualness instead of sexuality as another basis for politics.”
      “Touch the space of awareness with caring and sexualness, and touch the space of caring and sexualness with awareness.”
sex
  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of sect.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It would not be inaccurate to suggest that sex is essential for the continuation of the human species.”
      “Your sex can play a significant role in determining your physical and mental constitution.”
      “At some stage, parents should talk to their children about sex.”
sexe
  1. (rare or archaic) Alternative spelling of sex
sexes
  1. plural of sex
  2. plural of sexe
sexualisations
sexualizations
sexualisers
  1. plural of sexualiser
sexualizers
  1. plural of sexualizer
sexercises
  1. plural of sexercise
sexualisms
  1. plural of sexualism
sexualists
  1. plural of sexualist
sexualities
  1. plural of sexuality
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Lawrence's Women in Love, for instance, deliberately appropriates deviant sexualities in the construction of an alternative form of society.”
      “In Hollywood, Friedman believes, it is cool to be open to different sexualities and races because personal difference is equated with creativity.”
      “Modern Britain has certainly had an uneasy relationship with modern sexualities.”
sexinesses
sexisms
sexists
  1. plural of sexist
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “At least before the new lingo was adopted by all, it was easier to identify the bigots and sexists in a room.”
      “Saying that men are more likely to be violent criminals, rapists, or sexists would be 'derogatory or demeaning', and thus sexual harassment.”
      “It's yet another way to caricature the right as knee-jerk sexists and foaming-at-the-mouth religious zealots.”
sexuals
  1. plural of sexual
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A previous study suggested that male and female sexuals of the Argentine ant Linepithema humile may use genetic cues to avoid inbreeding.”
      “Queenless colonies generally rear male and female sexuals which typically mate in the nest.”
      “Inquiline queens must gain access to the host colony, coexist with its queen and workers, and then lay eggs that are reared as sexuals by the host workers.”
sexers
  1. plural of sexer
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