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Allosexual

//ˌæloʊˈsɛkʃuəl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Experiencing sexual attraction; not asexual.

    "Gray-asexual [denotes] a person who is somewhere between 100% asexual and allosexual; they might only experience sexual attraction on very rare occasions, […]"

  2. 2
    LGB; queer; non-heterosexual. Canada, uncommon

    "Yet we later learn that Diana Baring already knew the secret — whether being “half—caste" references being lower-caste with “black blood” (more than a racial marker) or being transsexual, homosexual, or allosexual."

  3. 3
    Directed toward or involving another person rather than (only) oneself.

    "Allosexual behavior peaked during the follicular phase for both heterosexual women and lesbians."

  4. 4
    Involving or directed at the other biological sex; heterosexual; not isosexual.

    "Dr. Conigliaro contended that the sharing of the same bedroom by a single parent and child of the opposite sex "could contribute to, or cause, an excessive degree of ‘allosexual identifications’, [where a child identifies with the parent of the opposite sex] […]""

Noun
  1. 1
    One who experiences sexual attraction; one who is not asexual.

    "[…] that is par for the course of being any form of queer-identified. But it also allows allies and allosexuals (persons who experience sexual attraction) to push out asexual and aromantic-identified individuals."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From allo- (“other”) + sexual. "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual. The sense "non-heterosexual" was influenced by (and had influence on) Canadian French allosexuel.

Etymology 2

From allo- (“other”) + sexual. "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual. The sense "non-heterosexual" was influenced by (and had influence on) Canadian French allosexuel.

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