supersexual

English

Etymology

super- + sexual

Adjective

supersexual (comparative more supersexual, superlative most supersexual)

  1. Above or beyond the sexual.
    • 1965, George M Ridenour, Shelley: a collection of critical essays:
      [] through the pivotal and half-metaphysical Child in Prometheus, to the supersexual Hermaphrodite and alligator-boys in The Witch of Atlas.
  2. Extremely sexual; hypersexual.
    • 2000, Marianne Noble, The masochistic pleasures of sentimental literature:
      [] barred by race from bourgeois respectability, African Americans have traditionally been mythologized as supersexual beings associated with tropical heat []

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