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technosex

technosex noun: cybersex.

Noun

technosex (uncountable)

  1. cybersex
    • The secondary social effects of technosex are potentially revolutionary. If technology enables you to experience erotic frissons or deep physical, social, emotional communion with another person with no possibility of pregnancy […]1991, Howard Rheingold, Virtual reality
    • Technosex can be divided into sexual conversations, usually accompanied by mutual masturbation, between people communicating via a chat facility, and sexual fantasies played out with a virtual partner, a construction of the computer.1998, Rob Kitchin, Cyberspace: the world in the wires

Origin of technosex

From techno- + sex.

Questions about technosex

What does technosex mean?
Technosex means cybersex.
What part of speech is technosex?
Technosex is a noun.

Words near technosex in the dictionary

  1. technoscience
  2. technoscientific
  3. technoscientifically
  4. technoself
  5. technoselves
  6. technosex
  7. technosexual
  8. technosexuality
  9. technosexuals
  10. technoshaman
  11. technoshamanic

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