allonormativity
/ˌæ.loʊ.nɔːɹ.məˈtɪv.ə.ti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The assumption that all human beings are allosexual or alloromantic, i.e. that they experience sexual attraction and/or romantic attraction to other people.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Because aces differ so much, the ideologies of compulsory sexuality, sex normativity, amatonormativity, and even allonormativity will tend to operate differently upon different types of aces."
- "The sooner campuses acknowledge asexuality as a sexual identity, the sooner they can begin examining and addressing the ways they perpetuate allonormativity."
- "In such a context, those who identify as asexual, inundated as is common by such norms of what we might refer to as allonormativity, are left, as blogger @theacetheist notes, with only two theses with which to incorrectly regard their existences: “I am not a sexual being, therefore I am not human,” or, alternatively, “I am human, therefore I am a sexual being.”"
Etymology
From allo- + normativity.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌæ.loʊ.nɔːɹ.məˈtɪv.ə.ti/
- British English: /ˌæ.ləʊ.nɔː.məˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/