allosexual

Meanings

Adjective

• Directed toward or involving another person rather than (only) oneself.
• Involving or directed at the other biological sex; heterosexual; not isosexual.
• LGB; queer; non-heterosexual.
• Sexual, experiencing sexual attraction; not asexual.

Noun

• One who experiences sexual attraction; one who is not asexual.

Related

Similar words

• other-sexual
• zedsexual

Opposite words

• heterosexual
• isosexual, homosexual
• autosexual
• asexual

Origin

• allo-- + 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) .