sexuality

sexuality
n
1. sexual character, femininity, womanhood, masculinity, manhood; sex, gender; heterosexuality, homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuali-ty, androgyny, hermaphrodism.
2. earthy nature, physical nature, bodily appetite, drive, instinct, animal magnetism; carnality, fleshliness, voluptuousness, physicalness, sensuality, Inf. sexiness; lustfulness, concupiscence, lasciviousness, libidinousness, lecherousness, lewdness, prurience, sa-laciousness, Sl. horniness; animality, bestiality, brutishness, coarseness, grossness.

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