asexuality

plural asexualities

1. The state or quality of being asexual:
   1. uncountableusuallyThe quality of experiencing little or no sexual attraction.

      Synonyms: anaphrodisia

   2. uncountableusuallyThe quality of lacking a sex or sexual organs.

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      The same holds for Vincentius Victor in his discussion of the asexuality of the corporeal form of the soul. In Lactantius, who emphasizes the uncertainty concerning the sex of the phoenix, and in Zeno of Verona, who says that the phoenix is for itself both sexes, the background is again formed by the inferred asexuality of the phoenix.

      1971?, Roelof van den Broek, The Myth of the Phoenix, page 421

   3. uncountableusuallyThe quality (of a species or organism) of reproducing asexually.

      While interpreted as supporting the asexuality of bdelloids, …

      2009, Chapter 13 of Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis, Isa Schön, Koen Martens, Peter van Dijk (editors), page 263

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      The asexuality of insects is, in almost all cases, known to be a derived condition. That is, their evolution was contingent on the sexuality of their ancestral forms.

      2003, Gimme Hugh Walter, Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research, page 166