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Definition of Asexuality

1. Noun. Having no evident sex or sex organs.

Definition of Asexuality

1. Noun. The state or quality of being asexual, that is: ¹

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Definition of Asexuality

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Asexuality

Literary usage of Asexuality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical by Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) (1877)
"In addition, a further conclusion is stated which must eventually either stand or fall with the accepted asexuality or sexuality of the higher Fungi. ..."

2. Passive Tranquility: The Sculpture of Filippo Della Valle by Vernon Hyde Minor (1997)
"4: "By insisting so loudly on the innocence, purity, and asexuality of the child, we have created a subversive echo: experience, corruption, eroticism. ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"Psychoanalysis takes the view that our belief in the child's asexuality belongs to the realm of myths, together with the doctrine of man's primeval ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"... the vicissitudes of the sexual life of the individual, is demonstrated by many observations. The asexuality and infantilism of cretins and the different ..."

5. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1886)
"11« on asexuality of the first pair, 9$ Scribner, on life on earth originating at North Pole ЯО Scripture, and nature, H and rationalism, ..."

6. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1900)
"... to play a part in sexual reproduction, without necessarily ascribing a sexual character to these bodies. The same is true for the asexuality of the ..."

7. Fecundation in Plants by David Myers Mottier (1904)
"The development of the plant kingdom, at least so far as sexuality is concerned, seems to show that sexual differentiation was preceded by asexuality, ..."

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