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sexhood

sexhood noun: the state or condition of one's sex or gender; sexuality.

Noun

sexhood (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of one's sex or gender; sexuality.
    • Their very difference in outline shows the special differences in organic structure and mental function that appertain to typical sexhood, a fact that Buchner does not fully appreciate, it would seem.1897, Home university league, Self culture
    • [...] feminine and neuter articles used in the Greek are grammatical designations, and not designations founded on actual sexhood. There cannot be sexhood before flesh and form were created.1902, R. L. Harrison, An eastern exposition of the Gospel of Jesus according to St. John

Examples of sexhood in a sentence

  • Second, wives swom to the use of their sexhood as their husbands may decree.1907, American Journal of Eugenics:
  • This act of lawlessness brought into existence a new type of humanity — apart from the abnormalism of dual-sexhood before referred to, — causing the extinction of the normal specific types.1916, Holden Edward Sampson, Scientific mysticism:
  • Why is it approached in such a roundabout fashion, through animal ecology, the sexhood of plants, the more or less pathological language of our cells, the sex of our chromosomes, of our brain, etc?1993, Luce Irigaray, Sexes and Genealogies:
  • While in low forms of cellular life there is no organic appearance of sex, it exists potentially, and as life develops a higher individuality organic sexhood appears.2006, Charles W. Close, Phrenopathy: Or Rational Mind Cure:

Origin of sexhood

From sex + -hood.

Questions about sexhood

What does sexhood mean?
Sexhood means the state or condition of one's sex or gender; sexuality.
How do you use sexhood in a sentence?
Second, wives swom to the use of their sexhood as their husbands may decree.
What part of speech is sexhood?
Sexhood is a noun.

Words near sexhood in the dictionary

  1. sexhibition
  2. sexhibitionism
  3. sexhibitionist
  4. sexhibitionists
  5. sexhibitions
  6. sexhood
  7. sexi-
  8. sexied up
  9. sexier
  10. sexies up
  11. sexiest

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