sexualist
sexualist noun: one who believes that plants reproduce by sexual reproduction, especially one who accepts the sexual classification method of Linnaeus.
Noun
sexualist (plural sexualists)
- 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...1816, Patrick Keith, A System of Physiological Botany - Volume 2, page 341
- Both the asexualist Spallanzini and the sexualist Erasmus Darwin cited Koelreuter, and the German botanist Johann Hedwig, the first to describe male and female reproductive structures in nonseed plants (cryptogams), declared in 1798 that Koelreuter had demonstrated “beyond all doubt" that...2017, Lincoln Taiz, Lee Taiz, Flora Unveiled: The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants, page 420
- 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.2006, James Thomas Sears, Behind the Mask of the Mattachine
- Sappho, being a poet and "a sexualist," embodies the word herself; language and sex become one in her: "Say my name and you say sex," she is the outcome of "the union of language and lust."2009, Sonia Front, Transgressing Boundaries in Jeanette Winterson's Fiction, page 77
- Someone with a specified type of sexuality.
- 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.1917, Alfred Adler, The Neurotic constitution, page 141
- And anybody taking part in it must be a perverted sexualist?1918, Noel Pemberton Billing, Verbatim Report of the Trial of Noel Pemberton Billing, page 268
- One who promotes sexual freedom.
- A much more thoroughgoing sexualist was Wilhelm Reich who advocated sexual freedom for adolescents, children and married people.1972, Richard H. Rush, The Wrecking Operation: Phase One, page 94
- As Hal told me, "I'm a sexualist. I've always said , 'We're fighting for sexual freedom. Let's have some . '2002, Paul D. Cain, Leading the Parade, page 35
Adjective
sexualist (comparative more sexualist, superlative most sexualist)
- 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.2011, Brendan O'Leary, How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity, page 211
- The particular ways different trans conceptualizations of space coalesce around PFZs provides a powerfully clear image for how classed, racialized and (cis) sexualist policies and powers impact trans communities in DC.2014, Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman, Silvia Posocco, Queer Necropolitics, page 180
- 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.1978, Marilyn J. Boxer, Jean Helen Quataert, Socialist Women, page 89
- That socialist program promoted class stuggle, while a sexualist program proposed to resolve the struggle between the sexes.2018, Karen Offen, Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920
- 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.2001, Spencer & Collen, The Eighteenth-century Novel - Volumes 1-7, page 133
- Even Robert Thornton, who defends the sexualist system in his introduction to New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, inadvertently reveals botany's fraught reputation as unmanly and nonanalytical: "by this analytical mode of studying Botany we rise far superior to the Contempt which is...2003, Amy King, Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel, page 57
- 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...1917, Alfred Adler, The Neurotic constitution, page 141
- Note that while Freud does not maintain that all dreams are of sexual motivation, in the particular case of the psychogenic nightmare he holds uncompromisingly to the sexualist interpretation.1941, Roland Dalbiez, Exposition, page 216
- 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.1996, Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, page 199
- My interpretation, non inconsistent with that of Orobio de Castro, is that in the sexualist perspective of western societies, the sex of women is, above all, a 'no-sex male'.2004, Lisa Adkins, Diana Leonard, Sex In Question: French Feminism, page 48
sexualist meaning in Tamil
sexualist in Tamil
- பால்வகைச் செய்தி ஆர்வலர்
Examples of sexualist in a sentence
- It was the sexualists who successfully freed their minds from such cultural biases and glimpsed the true sexual nature of plants.2020, Felicia McCarren, One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet: La Source 1866-2014, page 70:
- […] sexualists whose behaviour dominated by sexuality at the expense of other attributes is so because of the relative mass of brain which genetics has given to their sexual brain?2013, Stuart J. Dimond, Neuropsychology, page 469:
- According to Athenaeus Stesichorus, 'Who was to no small extent a sexualist,' also wrote this kind of poem, which was already named in antiquity 'a "song about boys".'2013, Hans Licht, Sexual Life In Ancient Greece:
- Till death do us part,' he adds with all the fervour of an introverted sexualist suddenly converted to objectivity and monogamy.1948, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence:
Forms of sexualist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sexualists |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more sexualist |
| superlative | most sexualist |
Origin of sexualist
Originally a calque of New Latin sexualista (“advocate of Linnaeus's ideas of sexual reproduction in plants”), from sexualis (“sexual”) + -ista (“-ist”). Now in additional senses directly from sexual + -ist.
Words formed from sexualist
Questions about sexualist
- What does sexualist mean?
- Sexualist means one who believes that plants reproduce by sexual reproduction, especially one who accepts the sexual classification method of Linnaeus.
- What is sexualist in Tamil?
- Sexualist in Tamil is பால்வகைச் செய்தி ஆர்வலர். See Sexualist meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use sexualist in a sentence?
- It was the sexualists who successfully freed their minds from such cultural biases and glimpsed the true sexual nature of plants.
- What part of speech is sexualist?
- Sexualist can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of sexualist?
- The plural of sexualist is sexualists.
Words near sexualist in the dictionary
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