Asexual vs Androgynous - What's the difference?
asexual | androgynous |
Not experiencing sexual attraction; lacking interest in or desire for sex.
* 2010 , Jerrold S. Greenberg, Clint E. Bruess, Sarah C. Conklin, Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality , fourth edition, pages 357–358:
Not sexual in nature, not marked by sexual activity. (Compare Platonic .)
* 2004 , Martha Vicinus, Intimate Friends: women who loved women, 1778-1928 , page 150:
(biology) Having no distinct sex, having no sexual organs.
(biology) Without sexual action; reproducing by some other method than sex.
(biology) A species which reproduces by asexual rather than sexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
* 2009 , Isa Schön, Giampaolo Rossetti, Koen Martens, Darwinulid Ostracods: Ancient Asexual Scandals or Scandalous Gossip?'', published as Chapter 11 of ''Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis , Isa Schön, Koen Martens, Peter van Dijk (editors), page 221:
A person who does not experience sexual attraction; a person who lacks interest in or desire for sex.
Possessing the sex organs of both sexes.
Pertaining to a feature or characteristic that is not definitively of either sex.
Possessing qualities of both sexes.
* Owen
As adjectives the difference between asexual and androgynous
is that asexual is not experiencing sexual attraction; lacking interest in or desire for sex while androgynous is possessing the sex organs of both sexes.As a noun asexual
is a species which reproduces by asexual rather than sexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.asexual
English
(Asexuality)Adjective
(-)- Many asexual' people experience attraction, but feel no need to act out that attraction sexually. Because they don't see a lack of sexual arousal as a problem to be corrected, ' asexual people focus their energy on enjoying other types of arousal and pleasure.
- The central paradox of Linton's writing was her inability, or unwillingness, to imagine an asexual friendship between women.
- asexual reproduction
Synonyms
* (not experiencing sexual attraction) ace (slang), asexy (slang) * (not of marked sex) epiceneAntonyms
* sexual, hornyDerived terms
* asexual reproductionCoordinate terms
*See also
* fission * gemmationNoun
(en noun)- 11.2 Demonstrating the Status of Long-Lived Asexuals
- [...] Indeed, if sex has so many advantages, then which special adaptations - if any - allow long-term survival without it? However, the main task of the research teams dealing with such putative ancient asexuals has thus far been to demonstrate that their respective groups (mainly bdelloids, darwinulids and certain lineages within orbatid mites) indeed merit the status.
Antonyms
* (biology) sexual * (person) sexualAlso see
* ----androgynous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Names like Pat, Terry and Jean are androgynous because they can be given to babies of either gender.
- The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous .