contrasexual
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person having personality characteristics usually associated with the opposite gender.
Example Sentences
- "Another contemporary scholar of Gnosticism, C. G. Jung, has taken this notion of the twin ray and applied it to his own model of the contrasexual nature of the self."
- "If one rigidly keeps one's inner contrasexual side unacknowledged, no psychic growth can occur."
- "The issue of gender becomes reality based with the human experience of the contrasexual aspect of our own psyches."
- "While Jung's theory of the contrasexual component of the personality seems radical in certain respects, there are other parts of it which are conservative."
- "Another prominent characteristic of the contrasexuals is that, in contrast to the other working women, they are more likely to go off on adventurous vacations as well as more inclined to take out mortgages and purchase their own homes […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrābor. English contra- English sexual English contrasexual From contra- + sexual.