other-sexual
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.80 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to sexual orientation toward a different sex from one's own; heterosexual; allosexual.
Example Sentences
- "At the center of the social site, patrons, like other Latin American homosexuals, engage in rituals of sexual exchange enmeshed in the matrix of social relations—homosexual, heterosexual, and other-sexual—produced in and by the space."
- "More recently, Rule, Ambady, Adams, and Macrae (2007) have shown an other-sexual orientation effect, such that targets of one's own sexual orientation were better recognized than were targets in the outgroup. Not only were perceivers able ..."
Etymology
From other + sexual.
Inflected Forms
more other-sexual (comparative)
most other-sexual (superlative)
othersexual (alternative)