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presexual en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English sexual English presexual From pre- + sexual.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not yet capable of sexual reproduction.
    • In fact, the only females in the novel who do not practice extreme repression in one form or another are presexual girls. 2002, Anna Krugovoy Silver, Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body, page 92:
  2. (not-comparable) Before sexual intercourse.
    • The Boomeroo Bulls were not only well and truly pissed but loving one another so much they seemed to be forever in one of their coracle-like prosexual scrums. 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 97:
    • He was filled with the presexual rush of affection that felt like love […] 1992, Richard Price, Clockers: