gynesexual
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Attracted to women and/or to femininity regardless of gender.
adj
Attracted to women and/or to femininity regardless of gender.
adj
Attracted to women and/or to femininity regardless of gender.
Example Sentences
- "[…] females, and/or femininity, regardless of whether the people they are attracted to were assigned female at birth. Gynosexual/gynesexual people: Individuals who experience sexual attraction toward women, females, and/or femininity […]"
- "In the past, the terms homosexual and heterosexual were used […] literature now uses terms such as attracted to men (androsexual), attracted to women (gynosexual), attracted to both or attracted to neither to describe a person's sexual orientation […]"
- "[…] androsexual men are attracted to men and gynosexual women are attracted to women."
- "Even if I agreed that it is useful to have words to name the sex(es) to whom someone is erotically attracted, I would not have to use the categories homosexual and heterosexual. I could just as easily divide the word up into gynosexual (attracted to women), androsexual (attracted to men), and bisexual (attracted to both)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn Proto-Hellenic *gʷənā Ancient Greek γῠνή (gŭnḗ)lbor. English gyne- Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder. Proto-Italic *seksus Proto-Indo-European *sek- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *sékh₁yeti Proto-Italic *sekaō Latin secō Latin secāre? Latin sexus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin sexuālisbor. English sexual English -sexual English gynesexual From gyne- + -sexual.
Inflected Forms
more gynesexual (comparative)
most gynesexual (superlative)
gynosexual (alternative)
gynesexuals (plural)