sexuality

sexuality
1. The sum of a person's sexual behaviors and tendencies, and the strength of such tendencies. 2. One's degree of sexual attractiveness. 3. The quality of having sexual functions or implications.
- infantile s. in psychoanalytic personality theory, the concept concerning psychosexual development in infants and children; encompasses the overlapping oral, anal, and phallic phases during the first five years of life.

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sex·u·al·i·ty .sek-shə-'wal-ət-ē n, pl -ties the quality or state of being sexual:
a) the condition of having sex
b) sexual activity
c) expression of sexual receptivity or interest esp. when excessive

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sex·u·al·i·ty (sek″shoo-alґĭ-te) 1. the characteristic quality of the male and female reproductive elements. 2. the constitution of an individual in relation to sexual attitudes or activity.

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