Meanings
adjectivepresexual (not comparable)
- not comparableNot yet capable of sexual reproduction.
In fact, the only females in the novel who do not practice extreme repression in one form or another are presexual girls.
2002, Anna Krugovoy Silver, Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body, page 92 - not comparableBefore sexual intercourse.
He was filled with the presexual rush of affection that felt like love […]
1992, Richard Price, Clockers1 more example
The Boomeroo Bulls were not only well and truly pissed but loving one another so much they seemed to be forever in one of their coracle-like prosexual scrums.
1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 97
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
- Proto-Italic*prai
- Proto-Italic*prai-
- Latinprae-
- Middle Englishpre-
- Englishpre-
- Englishsexual
- Englishpresexual
Cite this entry
APA
presexual. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/presexual
MLA
“presexual.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/presexual. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “presexual,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/presexual.
Source: presexual on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.