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Word entry · 9 letters

sexuality

Best crossword clue

"Orientation or desire"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /sɛk.ʃuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/Part of speech nounSorted aeilstuxyStarts with SEnds with Y1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

Word origin

Learned borrowing from New Latin sexuālitās. By surface analysis, sexual + -ity.

Used in a sentence

  • Listening to teenage girls on the telephone discuss for an hour who held whose hand at a party underscores the universal adolescent fascination with burgeoning sexuality.
  • [T]his prospective gay adoptive father chose not to disclose his sexuality to the caseworker who interviewed him at his home, rather than admit that he was a gay man, in order to avoid being told he could not adopt.
  • You were wearing rainbow gloves / With matching socks / What a display / Of everyday sexuality

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