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sexlessness

sexlessness

8.8
The state of showing no clear male or female features
  • noun
  • /ˈsɛksləsnəs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : asexualidad
  • The artist aimed to depict a sense of sexlessness in their work, emphasizing purity and innocence.

Examples

  • Many cultures have periods in history marked by a prevailing atmosphere of sexlessness, reflecting societal changes.

  • How worried are you on this rise of sexlessness and loneliness?

  • So we have a epidemic of loneliness and sexlessness amongst the sexes.

  • You don't plunge into the sexlessness, you know, you ask people how do you avoid each other?

  • With his giveaway sexlessness covered, he was as human-looking as me.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • So just talk about sexlessness and how that's perhaps maybe you agree with me that that's possibly the worst thing that we're seeing in our society today.

  • And neither Michelangelo nor Raphael possess this magic; one senses in them a sort of sexlessness.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Madame Mintie herself is exalted by her sexlessness, by the eroticism she sublimates into sterile, spiritual transports, and by the fact that, when she dies, she is associated with God's mother, as the status of the Virgin that becomes the object of Jean's art.

    Academic text (1997)
  • In the novel, the character's sexlessness made it difficult for them to connect emotionally with others.

Synonyms

asexuality
vssexlessness
  • Specialized
8.3

A lack of clear separate sexes or sex organs in animals and plants

is a general term for the state without visible sexual organs

Antonyms

sexuality
  • NSFW
161 4.1

A person's feelings, attractions, and identity about the people they are attracted to

How Sexually Developed

puberty
74 2.8
sexlessness
  • Specialized
8.8

Surface Forms

sexlessness singular
sexlessnesses plural

Morphology

sexlessness = sexless (transparent) = sex + less + ness

The noun is straightforwardly formed by adding '-ness' to the adjective 'sexless' (sex + -less).

Etymology

Sexlessness comes from sex, a word meaning 'male or female', and the ending -less, which means 'without'. So sexlessness simply means 'without sex' or 'having no clear male or female parts', which is why we use it for some plants, animals, or even sculptures.