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pseudoˈsexual, a.
Also pseudo-sexual.
[f. pseudo- + sexual a.]
1. Zool. In certain crustaceans (see quots.).
1925A. M. Banta in Zeitschr. für Indukt. Abstammungsund Vererbungslehre XL. 28 (heading) A thelytokous race of Cladocera in which pseudo-sexual reproducton occurs. Ibid. 37 Since these eggs are apparently in every way like sexual eggs in other Cladocera, except that they develop without fertilization, they will be referred to as pseudo-sexual eggs and this type of reproduction will be referred to as pseudo-sexual reproduction as contrasted with the usual type of parthenogenesis and the normal sexual reproduction in Cladocera. 1957New Biol. XXIII. 56 The story of reproduction in Daphnia is made more complex by certain races, particularly in arctic regions, which have a process of pseudo-sexual reproduction. 1967G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. II. xxiv. 510 Ruttner-Kolisko (1946)..found that in Keratella hiemalis pseudo-sexual resting eggs are produced parthenogenetically at the height of the development of the population..in July.
2. Applied to sexual behaviour motivated by the fear of aggression, desire for dominance, etc., that frequently results from overcrowded social conditions, rather than by genuinely sexual aims.
1951E. Bergler Neurotic Counterfeit-Sex iii. 141 All their sexual (one should say, rather, pseudo-sexual) activity is but a blind for totally unrelated baby-conflicts. 1960Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. CXXXI. 203/1 The difference in status shows itself very soon by a pseudo-sexual act. 1961C. & W. Russell Human Behav. iii. 175 A real sexual relationship between two people lies in the fact that each is proportionately freed from pseudosexual involvement. 1969Sci. Jrnl. Apr. 86/2 To the extent that such behaviour looks sexual, but in fact relates almost entirely to agonism, it can be described as pseudosexual.
Hence pseudoˈsexually adv.
1964Listener 12 Nov. 755/1 Neglectful mothering..produces juvenile delinquent monkeys, precociously aggressive and pseudosexually active. |