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psychosexual

[ sahy-koh-sek-shoo-uhlor, especially British, -seks-yoo- ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.


psychosexual

/ ˌsaɪkəʊˈsɛksjʊəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the mental aspects of sex, such as sexual fantasies
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌpsychoˈsexually, adverb
  • ˌpsychoˌsexuˈality, noun
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Other Words From

  • psycho·sexu·ali·ty noun
  • psycho·sexu·al·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of psychosexual1

First recorded in 1895–1900; psycho- + sexual
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Example Sentences

Alfred Hitchcock is not so much evoked as dragged into the room and pointed at vigorously, as if this film can convince you it’s a taut psychosexual thriller just by referencing some really good ones.

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He has a psychosexual hold over her that is intentionally fraught with peril for the audience.

There is more than a little Buffy/Faith resonance to the twisted, almost psychosexual relationship between Emily and Amanda.

Who better to capture the psychosexual nature of Twilight than the current Marquis De Denmark?

Sanford Bell has published cases in which as early as the age of two years psychosexual phenomena have been observed.

The commonest early manifestations of the sexual life in childhood are, as was said before, the psychosexual phenomena.

Similarly the psychosexual passes through a metamorphosis in normal development.

He holds that such cases show a "fixation" in an earlier stage of psychosexual development.

At this time of life, the psychosexual in especial often plays a great part.

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