unsexualadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈsɛkʃʊəl/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)l/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈsɛksjʊ(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌənˈsɛkʃ(əw)əl/ 1. Having no element of sexual feeling or desire; without sexual associations; = asexual adj. 2.
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the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > absence of sex characteristics
sexless1605
unspecificate1734
unsexed1749
unsexual?1785
asexual1795
unsexing1812
agamous1816
unsexual1873
gender-neutral1963
?1785 Considerations Bk. Genesis vi. 54 I continued some time after I awoke, in the conscious, and certain enjoyment, of unspeakable beatitude; pure, unsexual, peculiar.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vi, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 244/1 Turned to a formal puritan, A solemn and unsexual man.
1853 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay I. 357 An air of something unsexual, mannish, and..ludicrous.
1927 J. Holroyd-Reece tr. J. Meier-Graefe Spanish Journey 245 Their love-dances are absolutely unsexual.
1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends iii. i. 253 She was forty-seven and still handsome in an unsexual way.
2011 N.Y. Times Blogs (Nexis) 11 Oct. Truthfully, photographing a naked body can be one of the most unsexual things only because you have to be so concerned about every aspect of the picture.
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the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > absence of sex characteristics
sexless1605
unspecificate1734
unsexed1749
unsexual?1785
asexual1795
unsexing1812
agamous1816
unsexual1873
gender-neutral1963
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [adjective] > others
gemmiparous1793
gemmiferous1804
agamic1816
zoogenic1842
agamogenetic1858
autogenetic1859
parthenogenetic1860
parthenogenous1869
unsexual1873
monogenous1874
monogonic1876
monogonous1876
arrenotokous1877
gemmative1877
thelytokous1877
parthenogenic1878
heteroblastic1888
blastogenic1889
isogamous1889
paedogenetic1889
monogenic1890
anisogamous1891
monogenetic1900
paedogamous1912
apomictic1913
cytogamous1918
ectogenetic1923
pseudogamous1932
agamospermous1933
impaternate1934
subsexual1937
mictic1950
somatogamous1950
zygogenetic1950
1873 Amer. Bee Jrnl. 8 193/2 If the germ under favorable external circumstances may become a new being without such action, this more simple though less general process is called unsexual or agamic reproduction.
1907 W. Schlich Man. Forestry iv. 156 As a rule, insects with fully developed sexual organs live for a short time only, while unsexual insects live longer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.?1785