psychosexualadj.
/ˌsʌɪkəʊˈsɛkʃʊəl/, /ˌsʌɪkəʊˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)l/, /ˌsʌɪkəʊˈsɛksjʊ(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊˈsɛkʃ(əw)əl/ Involving or relating to the mental and emotional aspects of human sexuality.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > mental or emotional aspects of sexuality
psychosexual1892
1892 H. Ellis Let. 21 Dec. in S. Brady J. A. Symonds & Homosexuality (2012) 235 I thought it might be desirable to give 3 or 4 cases of inverted sexuality or psychosexual hermaphroditism in distinguished men with some detail.
1894 Cent. Mag. Oct. 953/2 Among the wealthy the atavistic abnormalities are generally psycho-sexual in nature.
1897 H. Ellis & J. A. Symonds Sexual Inversion iv. 99 In other cases there is some degree of psycho-sexual hermaphroditism.
1913 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Interpretation of Dreams v. 200 Anxiety in dreams may be of a psychoneurotic nature, or it may originate in psychosexual excitements, in which case the anxiety corresponds to a repressed libido.
1946 Mind 55 347 There are chapters sketching types of psycho-neurosis, psychosis, psycho-sexual disorder and other social disorders.
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 43 Not all the massage in the world will ensure satisfaction, for it is a matter of psycho-sexual release.
2004 Community Care 8 Apr. 90/4 (advt.) Rubicon is a specialist residential resource providing assessment, interventions and relapse support for young people whose psychosexual development is causing concern.
Derivatives
psychoˈsexually adv.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adverb] > mental or emotional aspects of sexuality
psychosexually1910
1910 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Three Contrib. to Sexual Theory i. 2 They are amphigenously inverted (psychosexually hermaphroditic); i. e., their sexual object may belong indifferently to either the same or to the other sex.
1929 J. F. Meagher in Urologic & Curtananeous Rev. 33 517/2 There is no treatment where an individual prefers his or her infantile attitude and does not want to progress and become psychosexually normal.
1998 Isis 89 446 The male homosexual was psychosexually female or at least feminized.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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