asexuality

English

Etymology

a- (“without”) +‎ sexuality; asexual +‎ -ity

Noun

asexuality (usually uncountable, plural asexualities)

The state or quality of being asexual, that is:
1. The state of not experiencing sexual attraction.
2. The state of not having a sex or sexual organs.
  - 1971?, Roelof van den Broek, The Myth of the Phoenix, page 421:
    The same holds for Vincentius Victor in his discussion of the asexuality of the corporeal form of the soul. In Lactantius, who emphasizes the uncertainty concerning the sex of the phoenix, and in Zeno of Verona, who says that the phoenix is for itself both sexes, the background is again formed by the inferred asexuality of the phoenix.
3. The quality (of a species or organism) of reproducing asexually.
  - 2003, Gimme Hugh Walter, Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research, page 166:
    The asexuality of insects is, in almost all cases, known to be a derived condition. That is, their evolution was contingent on the sexuality of their ancestral forms.
  - 2009, Chapter 13 of Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis, Isa Schön, Koen Martens, Peter van Dijk (editors), page 263:
    While interpreted as supporting the asexuality of bdelloids, [...]

Usage notes

Not to be confused with hyposexuality.

Synonyms

anaphrodisia

Antonyms

allosexuality

Derived terms

gray asexuality

Translations

state of not experiencing sexual attraction

Albanian: aseksualitet
Arabic: لَاجِنْسِيَّة‎ f (lā-jinsiyya)
Azerbaijani: aseksuallıq, aseksualizm
Basque: asexualtasun
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: асексуа́лност (aseksuálnost)
Catalan: asexualitat
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無性戀／无性恋 (wúxìngliàn), 無性向／无性向 (wúxìngxiàng)
Czech: asexualita
Danish: aseksualitet
Dutch: aseksualiteit (nl) f
Esperanto: neseksemo
Estonian: aseksuaalsus
Finnish: aseksuaalisuus (fi)
French: asexualité (fr)
Georgian: ასექსუალობა (aseksualoba)
German: Asexualität (de) f
Greek: ασεξουαλικότητα (el) (asexoualikótita)
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: aszexualitás (hu)
Icelandic: ókynhneigð
Italian: asessualità (it) f
Japanese: 非性愛 (ひせいあい, hiseiai)
Kazakh: асексуалдылық (aseksualdylyq)
Korean: 무성애(無性愛) (ko) (museong'ae)
Lao: ໄຮ້ເພດ (hai phēt)
Latvian: aseksualitāte f
Maltese: asesswalità f
Persian: بی‌جنس‌گرایی‎ (bi-jens-garâyi)
Polish: aseksualizm (pl), aseksualność (pl) f
Portuguese: assexualidade (pt) f
Romanian: asexualitate f
Russian: асексуа́льность (ru) f (aseksuálʹnostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: асексуалност f
Latin: aseksualnost f
Slovak: asexualita f
Spanish: asexualidad (es) f
Swedish: asexualitet (sv) c
Tagalog: aseksuwalidad
Turkish: aseksüellik (tr)
Ukrainian: асексуальні́сть (aseksualʹnístʹ)
Uzbek: aseksuallik
Vietnamese: vô tính
Welsh: anrhywioldeb

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Georgian: ასექსუალობა (aseksualoba)
German: Geschlechtslosigkeit f
Italian: asessualità (it) f

the quality of a species or organism of reproducing asexually

Polish: bezpłciowość (pl)