Allosexual Definition
Involving or directed at the other biological sex; heterosexual ; not isosexual .
LGB ; queer ; non-heterosexual .
One who experiences sexual attraction; one who is not asexual .
Origin of Allosexual
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allo- (“other") + sexual SEXUAL . "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual ), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual . The sense "LGBT, non-heterosexual" was influenced by (and had influence on) Canadian French allosexuel .
From Wiktionary
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allo- (“other") + sexual SEXUAL . "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual ), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual . The sense "LGBT, non-heterosexual" was influenced by (and had influence on) Canadian French allosexuel .
From Wiktionary
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