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Vanilla vs Nonvanilla - What's the difference?

vanilla | nonvanilla |

As a proper noun vanilla

is .

As an adjective nonvanilla is

not vanilla (standard or mundane, especially of sexual activity); unusual or kinky.

vanilla

English

(wikipedia vanilla)

Noun

  • (label) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially ), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
  • (label) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
  • (label) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
  • (label) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
  • (label) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

    • Derived terms

    * Cuban vanilla * vanilla grass

    Synonyms

    * (bean) vanilla bean * (extract) vanilla extract * (artificial extract) imitation vanilla

    Adjective

    (more)
  • Of .
  • Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
  • (label) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
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  • Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

    • Synonyms

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    nonvanilla

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not vanilla (standard or mundane, especially of sexual activity); unusual or kinky.
  • * 1997 , Nassim Taleb, Dynamic hedging: managing vanilla and exotic options
    • A nonvanilla option will be more precisely sensitive to the forward volatility in the market between its inception and its stopping time.
  • * 1999 , Steven Zeeland, Military trade
    • That's when I started doing a lot more nonvanilla . With Guy, the Marine from LA, I had more of an intellectual relationship.
  • * 2001 , Alice Alfonsi, John Scognamiglio, Dark Seductions: Tales of Erotic Horror
    • The nonvanilla sex would probably turn out to be B&D, handcuffs, spanking, and the like.