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Meaning of "sociosexual" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOCIOSEXUAL

sociosexual  [ˌsəʊsɪəʊˈsekʃʊəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOCIOSEXUAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sociosexual is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SOCIOSEXUAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sociosexual in the English dictionary

The definition of sociosexual in the dictionary is involving social and sexual elements.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SOCIOSEXUAL


accentual
ækˈsɛntʃʊəl
actual
ˈæktʃʊəl
antihomosexual
ˌæntɪˌhəʊməʊˈsekʃʊəl
antisexual
ˌæntɪˈsekʃʊəl
artifactual
ˌɑːtɪˈfæktʃʊəl
counterfactual
ˌkauntəˈfæktʃʊəl
eventual
ɪˈvɛntʃʊəl
factual
ˈfæktʃʊəl
ineffectual
ˌɪnɪˈfɛktʃʊəl
instinctual
ɪnˈstɪŋktʃʊəl
intellectual
ˌɪntɪˈlɛktʃʊəl
mutual
ˈmjuːtʃʊəl
nonconsensual
ˌnɒnkənˈsenʃʊəl
noncontractual
ˌnɒnkənˈtræktʃʊəl
nonhomosexual
ˌnɒnˌhəʊməˈsekʃʊəl
pansexual
pænˈsɛkʃʊəl
parasexual
ˌpærəˈsɛkʃʊəl
unintellectual
ˌʌnɪntɪˈlɛktʃʊəl
unsexual
ʌnˈsɛkʃʊəl
virtual
ˈvɜːtʃʊəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOCIOSEXUAL

sociolect
sociolinguist
sociolinguistic
sociolinguistics
sociologese
sociological
sociologically
sociologism
sociologist
sociologistic
sociology
sociometric
sociometrist
sociometry
sociopath
sociopathic
sociopathy
sociopolitical
socioreligious
sock

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOCIOSEXUAL

ambisexual
ambosexual
asexual
bisexual
contrasexual
fauxmosexual
heterosexual
homosexual
hypersexual
intersexual
intrasexual
metrosexual
nonsexual
pomosexual
psychosexual
retrosexual
sexual
transexual
transsexual
ubersexual
unisexual

Synonyms and antonyms of sociosexual in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sociosexual» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOCIOSEXUAL

Find out the translation of sociosexual to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sociosexual from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sociosexual» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

sociosexual
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sociosexual
570 millions of speakers

English

sociosexual
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

sociosexual
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اجتماعي جنسي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

sociosexual
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sociossexuais
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

sociosexual
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sociosexuel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sosioseksual
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

soziosexuellen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

sociosexual
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

sociosexual
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sosioseksual
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sociosexual
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

sociosexual
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समलिंगी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sociosexual
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sociosessuale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sociosexual
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

sociosexual
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sociosexual
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sociosexual
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sociosexual
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sociosexual
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sociosexual
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sociosexual

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOCIOSEXUAL»

The term «sociosexual» is used very little and occupies the 163.624 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOCIOSEXUAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sociosexual» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sociosexual» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sociosexual

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOCIOSEXUAL»

Discover the use of sociosexual in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sociosexual and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures
Although men, as a group, tend to display greater sexual "permissiveness" than women on most sociosexual attitudes and behaviors (e.g., men have more permissive attitudes about the acceptability of casual sex, and they are more likely to ...
Clive M. Davis, William L. Yarber, Robert Bauserman, 1998
2
Towards a neuroscience of social interaction
Furthermore, acute sociosexual interactions (characterized by non—paced mating) did not promote cell proliferation in female prairie voles (Fowler et al., 2002), suggesting that the hedonic value of the sociosexual interaction may play a role ...
Ulrich Pfeiffer
3
Social Play in Primates
Name Sex Agea Locationb Study Parentage and Rearing ORANG—UTANS Lipis M 20 Z00 Sociosexual Behavior/ Feral born Paternal Play Bukit M 20 Z00 Sociosexual/Proceptivity Feral born Sampit M 21 YRPRC Sociosexual Feral born  ...
Euclid Smith, 2012
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Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, ...
Sociosexual. patterns. In 1914, Julian Huxley published an account of courtship behaviour in great crested grebes (Podiceps cristatus). In this paper, which is widely recognizedas the forerunner of later developments in ethology, Huxley ...
Alan F. Dixson, 2012
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The Mating Game: A Primer on Love, Sex, and Marriage
Men and women who possess a restricted sociosexual orientation generally are unwilling to engage in sex outside of a ... The seven-item Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI) used to measure this personality construct was developed by ...
Pamela C. Regan, 2008
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Sex Offenders : Identification, Risk Assessment, Treatment, ...
However at the risk of overgeneralizing, most offenders with intellectual disabilities require training in appropriate sociosexual interactions and in the range of compensatory self-management skills necessary to provide prosocial responses in ...
Fabian M. Saleh M.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, Albert J. Grudzinskas M.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in Law University of Massachusetts Medical School, Division of Forensic Psychiatry University of Ottawa John M. Bradford M.D. Professor and Head, 2009
7
The Science of Intimate Relationships
Many of the sociosexual attitudes, preferences, and behaviors that Kinsey and his colleagues identified are correlated, and some of them form a psychological dimension now known as sociosexual orientation (Gangestad and Simpson, 1990; ...
Garth Fletcher, Jeffry A. Simpson, Lorne Campbell, 2012
8
The Bonobos: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation
We found differences in sociosexual activity between groups. The frequency of sociosexual behavior was remarkably low at Planckendael in 1999, with only 0.13 interactions per hour, a value that lies very close to the value given by de Waal ...
Takeshi Furuichi, Jo Thompson, 2007
9
Sexual Nature/Sexual Culture
An increase in nongrooming contact, including sociosexual behavior, following both food provisioning and aggressive incidents unrelated to food (fig. 3.8). Hence, food provisioning stimulated the bonobos' affiliative and sociosexual behavior ...
Paul R. Abramson, Steven D. Pinkerton, 1995
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The Monkeys of Stormy Mountain: 60 Years of Primatological ...
Sexual motivation is rarely ascribed to these interactions because their sociosexual functions are often seen as their primary purpose, thus diminishing or even negating any sexual component that such activity might have. As such, these ...
Jean-Baptiste Leca, Michael A. Huffman, Paul L. Vasey, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOCIOSEXUAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sociosexual is used in the context of the following news items.
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Trouble settling down? Sexual promiscuity may be hardwired in genes
... the subjects took the detailed, intense “sociosexual orientation inventory” questionnaire), the other on the finger lengths (yes, really) of 1,300 men and women. «Genetic Literacy Project, Feb 15»
2
Can science finger a philanderer?
An individual's sociosexuality reflects how restricted their attitudes toward sex and their sexual behaviours are. Wlodarski's team used answers from the ... «Medical Xpress, Feb 15»
3
Can science finger a philanderer? Not like this!
They ask whether sociosexuality and the relative lengths of the second and forth fingers (2D:4D ratio) conform to distributions with one peak or two. A bimodal ... «The Conversation AU, Feb 15»
4
What A Man's Hands Could Say About His Dating Style
Researchers also evaluated these volunteers using the Sociosexual Orientation Inventory, which measures promiscuity along a spectrum and indicates whether ... «Refinery29, Feb 15»
5
Scientists decode how love hormone or oxytocin influence female …
In the new study "Oxytocin Modulates Female Sociosexual Behavior through a Specific Class of Prefrontal Cortical Interneurons," which was published in the ... «Tech Times, Oct 14»
6
Casual sex might be good for your health
In the study, New York University lead researcher Zhana Vrangalova and her team first asked 371 single undergrads at NYU to report their sociosexual ... «Philly.com, Jul 14»
7
Could casual sex make us happier?
Whether a one night stand will leave you skipping or sobbing all the way to the train station depends on your “sociosexuality”, according to Dr Vrangalova. «The Independent, Jul 14»
8
Casual sex can boost self-esteem
Those who have a more unrestricted sociosexual orientation are more willing to have casual sex, and are more comfortable engaging in sex without love, ... «NHS Choices, Jun 14»
9
Casual Sex Is Actually Excellent for You, If You Love Casual Sex
In social science parlance, the personality trait that measures degrees of interest in casual sex is termed "sociosexuality." "Sociosexual orientation is a relatively ... «Pacific Standard, Jun 14»
10
Who Says 'I Love You' First? Unexpected Findings
They compared those with unrestricted sociosexual orientation i.e. interest in novel sexual relationships without strong prior feelings of closeness and ... «PsychCentral.com, May 12»

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« EDUCALINGO. Sociosexual [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sociosexual>. Apr 2024 ».
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