supersexual

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ sexual.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

supersexual (comparative more supersexual, superlative most supersexual)

1. Above or beyond the sexual.
   • 1965, George M Ridenour, Shelley: a collection of critical essays:

     […] through the pivotal and half-metaphysical Child in Prometheus, to the supersexual Hermaphrodite and alligator-boys in The Witch of Atlas.

2. Extremely sexual; hypersexual.
   • 2000, Marianne Noble, The masochistic pleasures of sentimental literature:

     […] barred by race from bourgeois respectability, African Americans have traditionally been mythologized as supersexual beings associated with tropical heat […]

Derived terms

• supersexuality