单词 | sexual attraction |
释义 | > as lemmassexual attraction sexual attraction n. sexual allure; (an) attraction based on sexual instinct or sexual desire. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > sex appeal sexual attraction?1798 sex appeal1903 it1904 oomph1937 bed-worthiness1959 ?1798 H. B. Dudley Passages on Trial Vortigern & Rowena (ed. 4) IV. 119 I'll shape..The Paphian Queen so witchinglie to life, With all Love's sexual attractions, that the full pulse of him who gazes on it Shall rise, and beat in tumult of delight! 1855 A. J. Davis Great Harmonia IV. xii. 302 It is a better thing to marry through deep friendship than from sexual attraction. 1890 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 3 102 The matter of sexual attraction, either between individuals or more especially between sexual pronuclei producing ‘prepotency’. 1968 S. Hynes Edwardian Turn of Mind vi. 195 The biological facts of sexual attraction and the urge to reproduce. 2005 N.Y. Mag. 7 Mar. 58/1 The least visible sexual minority is asexuals, who do not experience sexual attraction at all. < as lemmas |
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