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contrasexual

contrasexual adjective: of part of the psyche, having characteristics of the opposite gender.

Adjective

contrasexual (comparative more contrasexual, superlative most contrasexual)

  1. (Jungian psychology) Of part of the psyche, having characteristics of the opposite gender.
    • Another contemporary scholar of Gnosticism, C. G. Jung, has taken this notion of the twin ray and applied it to his own model of the contrasexual nature of the self.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 31
    • If one rigidly keeps one's inner contrasexual side unacknowledged, no psychic growth can occur.1987, Benjamin G. Lockerd, Edmund Spenser, The Sacred Marriage: Psychic Integration in the Faerie Queene, Bucknell University Press, →ISBN, page 30

Noun

contrasexual (plural contrasexuals)

  1. (Jungian psychology) A person having personality characteristics usually associated with the opposite gender.
    • Another prominent characteristic of the contrasexuals is that, in contrast to the other working women, they are more likely to go off on adventurous vacations as well as more inclined to take out mortgages and purchase their own homes […]2008, Neil Gilbert, A Mother's Work, page 33

contrasexual meaning in Tamil

contrasexual in Tamil

வேற்றுப்பால் பண்புடைமை

Examples of contrasexual in a sentence

  • The issue of gender becomes reality based with the human experience of the contrasexual aspect of our own psyches.1997, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Gender and Desire: Uncursing Pandora, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN:
  • While Jung's theory of the contrasexual component of the personality seems radical in certain respects, there are other parts of it which are conservative.2012, David Tacey, The Jung Reader, Routledge, →ISBN, page 145:

Forms of contrasexual

Adjective
comparativemore contrasexual
superlativemost contrasexual
Noun
pluralcontrasexuals

Origin of contrasexual

From contra- + sexual.

Questions about contrasexual

What does contrasexual mean?
Contrasexual means of part of the psyche, having characteristics of the opposite gender.
What is contrasexual in Tamil?
Contrasexual in Tamil is வேற்றுப்பால் பண்புடைமை. See Contrasexual meaning in Tamil.
How do you use contrasexual in a sentence?
The issue of gender becomes reality based with the human experience of the contrasexual aspect of our own psyches.
What part of speech is contrasexual?
Contrasexual can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near contrasexual in the dictionary

  1. contraseasonal
  2. contraseasonally
  3. contraselectable
  4. contraselection
  5. contraselections
  6. contrasexual
  7. contrasexuality
  8. contrasexually
  9. contrasexuals
  10. contraspective
  11. contrast

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contrasexual (page history and authors); contrasexual (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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