antisexuality

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noun

Opposition to sexuality.

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Meanings

nounantisexuality (uncountable)
  1. uncountableOpposition to sexuality.

    DH Lawrence[…]attempted to revise the Christian perspective of antisexuality and give an example of sexual integration.

    1994, Robert Goss, Jesus Acted Up: A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto
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    The Restoration problems of language and of sexuality both appear in suspended or sublimated form (the allusion of a name or the exaggerated antisexuality of a spinster)[…]

    1994, Marshall Brown, Preromanticism, page 229

    Synonyms: erotophobia, genophobia, celibacy

Synonyms & antonyms

nounOpposition to sexuality.

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erotophobiagenophobiacelibacy
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genophobiapruderyprudishness

Origin

From anti- + sexuality.

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APA

antisexuality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antisexuality

MLA

“antisexuality.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antisexuality. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antisexuality,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antisexuality.

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