other-sexual

English

Alternative forms

  • othersexual

Etymology

From other + sexual.

Adjective

other-sexual (comparative more other-sexual, superlative most other-sexual)

  1. (rare) Of or relating to sexual orientation toward a different sex from one's own; heterosexual; allosexual.
    • 1997, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Ramón Grosfoguel, Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism - Page 217:
      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.
    • 2013, Donal E. Carlston, The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition - Page 182:
      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 ...
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