Sexualist

adj, noun

adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who believes that plants reproduce by sexual reproduction, especially one who accepts the sexual classification method of Linnaeus.

    "But if this is at all an argument, it is one from which the sexualist has but little to fear; as in the case of slips and layers there is in fact no production of a new individual, but merely a prolongation of the old; or at best a multiplication by means of division, as in the case of the Polypi: and although plants are capable of being multiplied in this manner, it is no proof that they may not be propagated by means of sexual intercourse also."

  2. 2
    One who is very sexual; A person who is very lusty.

    "My interest was centered in what I call "the true homosexual:" the man who has male genitals, who is an active male sexualist, and who likes to play with other male genitals."

  3. 3
    Someone with a specified type of sexuality. usually

    "Reminiscences out of his infantile preiod were utilized in the neruosis, as a result of which he came near being the victim of a homo-sexualist."

  4. 4
    One who promotes sexual freedom.

    "A much more thoroughgoing sexualist was Wilhelm Reich who advocated sexual freedom for adolescents, children and married people."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Engaging in sexualism; discriminating based on someone's sexuality.

    "One would suggest that Iraqis have always been extraordinarily xenophobic, intolerant, racist, patriarchal, sexist, and sexualist."

  2. 2
    A proponent of sexualism: advocating preferential treatment of women because of their role in reproducing the species

    "In a sexualist regime, society would be properly organized to support its reproductive resources as well as its productive forces."

  3. 3
    Pertaining to Linnaeus' sexual system of botanical classification.

    "When Linnaeus' sexualist system of botany initially became known in England, there were detractors who charged that Linnæus and his botanical classification system were obscene."

  4. 4
    Based on or deriving from sexuality.

    "Sexual discourse too becomes entirely phantasmatic when sex itself, the critical reduction of moral and social mystification that it used to be, becomes the mode of rationalisation of a problem situated at the level of the total symbolic destruction of social relations, an examination of the sexualist discourse contributes to locking away under a security code."

  5. 5
    Sexist.

    "Conservatives, as I am using the word, support hegemonic capitalism while protecting a "learned ignorance" of their necessary resultant support for racialist and sexualist social structures."

Example

More examples

"But if this is at all an argument, it is one from which the sexualist has but little to fear; as in the case of slips and layers there is in fact no production of a new individual, but merely a prolongation of the old; or at best a multiplication by means of division, as in the case of the Polypi: and although plants are capable of being multiplied in this manner, it is no proof that they may not be propagated by means of sexual intercourse also."

Etymology

From sexual + -ist.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.