asexuality

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌeɪ.sɛk.ʃuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/, /ˌeɪ.sɛk.sjuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌeɪ.sɛk.ʃuˈæ.lə.ti/
• Rhymes: -ælɪti
• Hyphenation: a‧sex‧u‧al‧i‧ty

Noun

asexuality (usually uncountable, plural asexualities)

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

      Synonym: (medical) anaphrodisia

      Coordinate term: allosexuality

   2. The quality of lacking a sex or sexual organs.
      • 1971?, Roelof van den Broek, The Myth of the Phoenix, page 421:

        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 quality (of a species or organism) of reproducing asexually.
      • 2003, Gimme Hugh Walter, Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research, page 166:

        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.

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

        While interpreted as supporting the asexuality of bdelloids, [...]

Hyponyms

• graysexuality

Derived terms

• gray asexuality

 

Translations

state of not experiencing sexual attraction

• Albanian: aseksualitet
• Arabic: لَاجِنْسِيَّة f (lā-jinsiyya)
• Azerbaijani: aseksuallıq, aseksualizm
• Basque: asexualtasun
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: асексуа́лност (aseksuálnost)
• Catalan: asexualitat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無性戀／无性恋 (wúxìngliàn), 無性向／无性向 (wúxìngxiàng)

• Czech: asexualita
• Danish: aseksualitet
• Dutch: aseksualiteit (nl) f
• Esperanto: neseksemo
• Estonian: aseksuaalsus
• Finnish: aseksuaalisuus (fi)
• French: asexualité (fr)
• Georgian: ასექსუალობა (aseksualoba)
• German: Asexualität (de) f
• Greek: ασεξουαλικότητα (el) (asexoualikótita)
• Gujarati: અલિંગતા (aliṅgtā)
• Hindi: अलैंगिकता f (alaiṅgiktā)
• Hungarian: aszexualitás (hu)
• Icelandic: ókynhneigð
• Italian: asessualità (it) f
• Japanese: 非性愛 (ひせいあい, hiseiai)
• Kazakh: асексуалдылық (aseksualdylyq)
• Korean: 무성애(無性愛) (ko) (museong'ae)
• Lao: ໄຮ້ເພດ (hai phēt)
• Latvian: aseksualitāte f
• Maltese: asesswalità f
• Marathi: अलिंगता f (aliṅgtā)
• Persian: بی‌جنس‌گرایی (bi-jens-garâyi)
• Polish: aseksualizm (pl), aseksualność (pl) f
• Portuguese: assexualidade (pt) f
• Romanian: asexualitate f
• Russian: асексуа́льность (ru) f (aseksuálʹnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: асексуалност f

  Latin: aseksualnost f

• Slovak: asexualita f
• Spanish: asexualidad (es) f
• Swedish: asexualitet (sv) c
• Tagalog: aseksuwalidad
• Tamil: அபாலீர்ப்பு (apālīrppu)
• Turkish: aseksüellik (tr)
• Ukrainian: асексуальні́сть (aseksualʹnístʹ)
• Uzbek: aseksuallik
• Vietnamese: vô tính
• Welsh: anrhywioldeb (cy)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ასექსუალობა (aseksualoba)
• German: Geschlechtslosigkeit f
• Italian: asessualità (it) f

the quality of a species or organism of reproducing asexually

• Polish: bezpłciowość (pl)

See also

• (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexual (-ity, ace), bisexual (-ity, bi), demisexual (-ity, demi), graysexual (-ity), heterosexual (-ity, straight), homosexual (-ity, gay, lesbian), omnisexual (-ity), pansexual (-ity, pan), polysexual (-ity), sapiosexual (-ity), androsexual (-ity), gynesexual (-ity) ^{(Category: en:Sexual orientations)}
• (romantic orientations) romantic orientation; aromantic (-ism), biromantic (-ism), demiromantic (-ism), heteroromantic (-ism), homoromantic (-ism), panromantic (-ism), transromantic ^{(Category: en:Romantic orientations)}

Slovak

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaseksuaʎiti]

Noun

asexuality f

1. nominative/accusative plural of asexualita
2. genitive singular of asexualita