technosexual
/ˌtɛk.noʊˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.
adj
Expressing, or pertaining to the expression of, sexuality through technology or technological media.
noun
Someone with a sexual fetish for or sexual attraction to machines, robots, computers or androids.
noun
A person, especially a male metrosexual, who expresses himself or herself (including in terms of sexuality) through technological devices.
Example Sentences
- "[…] Women of the time were constructed to be the technosexual Other, robot-like & programmable, as in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927). Other images of women as sex machine in film & literature of the time are described. […]"
- "By contrast, women artists who considered the theme of the mannequin-woman precisely undermined this form of elision between women on the street and the idealised technosexual forms of woman displayed in magazines, shop windows and on advertising poles."
- "It is a technosexual dominance marked by order, control, and precision, one which seeks to reduce the Other to disorder, chaos, and destruction through discourses of homophobia and masculinity."
- "Immediate fallout from the scandal included a call for the mayor's resignation from the city's 900-member municipal union and public embarrassment for Kilpatrick's wife and family as the tragic technosexual tale spread nationwide thanks to coverage in […] prominent media outlets."
- "They discuss the implications of online dating; online pornography; virtual sex in the fantasy worlds of Second Life and The Sims; and technosexual intercourse, an activity traditionally associated with phone sex but now embracing all manner of cyber-based connections such as "sexting" (sexually explicit text messaging) and erotic instant messaging."
- "Aiming at a slightly older crowd, Calvin Klein introduced a pair of perfumes for the "technosexual generation" — the company's phrase, not mine — named CK in2U. The ad campaign featured the lines "She likes how he blogs, her texts turn him on. It's intense. For right now.""
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌtɛk.noʊˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
- British English: /ˌtɛk.nəʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/