Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

nonsexual en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of non-sexual.
    alt of non-sexual
    • The CIs were considered experts in the investigated topic insofar as it was expected that they could provide relevant and appropriate information about the construction and the significance of intimate, nonsexual female-male relationships. 1995, Paul J. Strop, A Study of Male-female Intimate Nonsexual Friendships in the Workplace, page 115:
    • Still further, the percentage of cases plea bargained did not significantly differ between sexual and nonsexual assault offenses in the model state site (Caringella-MacDonald 1985). 2009, Susan Caringella, Addressing Rape Reform in Law and Practice, page 37:
    • When we kiss someone, whether it is a sexual or nonsexual kiss, we often touch his or her face, head, or hair. 2003, Kathleen M. McGee, Laura J. Buddenberg, Unmasking Sexual Con Games: Helping Teens Avoid Emotional Grooming and Dating Violence, page 118:
    • These primitive, nonsexual plants constitute the subkingdom Protophyta. 1923, The Ohio Journal of Science - Volumes 23-25, page 148:
    • In coccidiosis we have a sexual cycle (sporogony) alternating with a nonsexual one (schizogony). 1923, Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology, page Edward Rhodes Stitt:
    • Both men and women often feel guilty about their need for nonsexual touch, as if there were something wrong with them for not being instantly sexually available to their partner. 1999, Joyce Vissell, Barry Vissell, The Heart's Wisdom: A Practical Guide to Growing Through Love:
    • All too often chronically ill or disabled people are viewed as being nonsexual people by their family, friends, and even many medical professionals. 1997, Sexual Function in People with Disability and Chronic Illness, page 50:
    • It is probably indigenous in both Europe and North America. Spore forms.--The fungus has a nonsexual form (Dothistroma pini Hulbary) as well as a sexual form (Scirrhia pint Funk and Parker). 1967, U.S. Forest Service Research Note PSW-N: