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monosexual

monosexual adjective: composed of, or relating to, only one sex.

Adjective

monosexual (not comparable)

  1. Composed of, or relating to, only one sex.
    • The environment was composed of the students and servants who worked in the schools of Puebla, masculine and monosexual spaces that offered a favorable ambiance for the practice of the nefarious sin. Bear in mind that in pre-industrial societies it was not easy for an individual to escape the...2003, Pete Sigal, Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 207
    • And it was biopolitical in that, by assigning Barbin a "true" and "definite" identity as a man, the magistrates maintained sexual dimorphism as the law of populations, even or perhaps particularly in "monosexual" spaces such as the convent.Thus Barbin, as a person assigned to the category of...2017 September 28, David A. Rubin, Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 63
  2. Sexually attracted to members of only one sex or gender.
    • How are we to understand the erasure of bisexuality in some of the fundamental works of queer deconstructive theory? […] a reliance on monosexual gay/lesbian historiography […]2013 May 13, Karen Lovaas, LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain, Routledge, →ISBN
    • […] lesbian and gay people (i.e., monosexual minorities) regardless of sex and gender identities often face significant health disparities in relation to heterosexual people, that bisexual/pansexual/queer/fluid people (i.e. non-monosexual people) face significant disparities in relation to some...2020 October 7, Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski, J. E. Sumerau, Nik M. Lampe, Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 11

Noun

monosexual (plural monosexuals)

  1. A monosexual person.
    • Letitia, I fear, is a monosexual. Only men arouse her.1968, Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, Panther Books, →OCLC, page 106
    • There are several other reasons for underestimating the number of lesbians. One, an effeminate male is usually associated with homosexuality, whether or not he is a monosexual. But masculine women are not usually defined as homosexual. Therefore, the defining of visual characteristics varies for...1976, Robert R. Bell, “Female Homosexuality”, in Social deviance: A substantive analysis (The Dorsey Series in Sociology), Revised edition, Dorsey Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 313

Examples of monosexual in a sentence

  • The environment was composed of the students and servants who worked in the schools of Puebla, masculine and monosexual spaces that offered a favorable ambiance for the practice of the nefarious sin.2003, Pete Sigal, Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 207:
  • On the other hand, he did not go to a monosexual [all-boys] school as I did, as Isherwood and his kind did.2018 August 22, Gore Vidal, The Second American Revolution and Other Essays 1976 - 1982, Vintage, →ISBN:
  • One, an effeminate male is usually associated with homosexuality, whether or not he is a monosexual.1976, Robert R. Bell, “Female Homosexuality”, in Social deviance: A substantive analysis (The Dorsey Series in Sociology), Revised edition...
  • While monosexuals (gay men, heterosexuals, and lesbians) tend to describe being attracted to people of only one gender, bisexuals tend to disregard gender when assessing attractions to others.2014 December 16, Chuck Stewart, Proud Heritage: People, Issues, and Documents of the LGBT Experience, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN...

Antonyms of monosexual

Forms of monosexual

pluralmonosexuals

Origin of monosexual

From mono- + sexual. In the second sense, by analogy with bisexual.

Words formed from monosexual

Questions about monosexual

What does monosexual mean?
Monosexual means composed of, or relating to, only one sex.
How do you use monosexual in a sentence?
The environment was composed of the students and servants who worked in the schools of Puebla, masculine and monosexual spaces that offered a favorable ambiance for the practice of the nefarious sin.
What part of speech is monosexual?
Monosexual can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near monosexual in the dictionary

  1. monoservice
  2. monoses
  3. monosex
  4. monosexism
  5. monosexist
  6. monosexual
  7. monosexualities
  8. monosexuality
  9. monosexually
  10. monosexuals
  11. monosialodihexosylganglioside

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