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proceptively

proceptively adverb: in a proceptive manner.

Adverb

proceptively (not comparable)

  1. In a proceptive manner
    • Commenting on the proceptive and receptive nature of sexual response, Vrangalova and Savin-Williams [36 ] proposed that, “…mostly heterosexual individuals may be proceptively oriented toward only one sex, but have higher arousability to a wider range of stimuli, including those of their...2015 December 3, “Straight but Not Narrow; Within-Gender Variation in the Gender-Specificity of Women’s Sexual Response”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of proceptively

From proceptive + -ly.

Questions about proceptively

What does proceptively mean?
Proceptively means in a proceptive manner.
What part of speech is proceptively?
Proceptively is an adverb.

Words near proceptively in the dictionary

  1. procentriole
  2. procentrioles
  3. procephalic
  4. proception
  5. proceptive
  6. proceptively
  7. proceptivity
  8. proceratosaurid
  9. proceratosaurids
  10. procerci
  11. procercoid

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