asexuality

名词 n.
/ˌeɪ.sɛk.ʃuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/|/ˌeɪ.sɛk.sjuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/    /ˌeɪ.sɛk.ʃuˈæ.lə.ti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state or quality of being asexual:; The quality of experiencing little or no sexual attraction. uncountable,usually
  2. The state or quality of being asexual:; The quality of lacking a sex or sexual organs. uncountable,usually
    — 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.
  3. The state or quality of being asexual:; The quality (of a species or organism) of reproducing asexually. uncountable,usually
    — 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.

词形变化

asexualities plural

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词源

From a- (“lacking, without”) + sexuality, equivalent to asexual + -ity.
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