Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zedsexual

/zɛdˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: zed-sex-ual
IPA: /zɛdˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/

26

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not asexual; experiencing sexual attraction to others.

Example Sentences

"Most significantly, it was a time before zedsexual people started (en masse) appropriating ace educational materials and mainstream ace discourse to perpetrate and/or justify anti-ace sexual coercion and rape […]"
"But what about people who don't feel completely asexual or zedsexual?"
"Both asexual and zedsexual (non-asexual) people tend to experience different attractions on a spectrum of intensity, from none ever to all the attraction all the time, with many different nuanced levels in between."

Etymology

From zed + -sexual as a play on asexual, since the sexuality falls on the other side of the sexual spectrum from asexuality, as the letters "A" and "Z" are on opposite ends of the alphabet.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: zed

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /zɛdˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
British English: /zɛdˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/

Inflected Forms

more zedsexual (comparative) most zedsexual (superlative)

Synonyms

allosexual sexual

Antonyms

asexual

Rhymes With

sexual homosexual bisexual heterosexual transsexual asexual sapiosexual demisexual lumbersexual omnisexual ambisexual technosexual

Questions

How do you pronounce zedsexual?: The recorded pronunciation is /zɛdˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/.
What does zedsexual mean?: Not asexual; experiencing sexual attraction to others.
Where does zedsexual come from?: From zed + -sexual as a play on asexual, since the sexuality falls on the other side of the sexual spectrum from asexuality, as the letters "A" and "Z" are on opposite ends of the alphabet.

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