sapiosexual

[sey-pee-oh-sek-shoo-uhl]

noun

1. a person who finds intelligence to be a sexually attractive quality in others.

adjective

1. noting or relating to such a person.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sapiosexual¹

First recorded in 2000–05; sapi(ent) ( def. ) + -o- ( def. ) + sexual ( def. )

Example Sentences

My labels are demisexual and sapiosexual, or some combination of the two, which makes being attracted to someone when there is no intellectual or emotional spark improbable, if not impossible.

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Ultimately, “banter” is nothing more than a buzzword, the 2024 answer to the “sapiosexual” craze where online daters peacocked their degrees by designating their sexual preference as “intellectuals.”

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Though the two are close friends, and one would think by now he would have come to realize she is at least mildly sapiosexual, she seems too perfect, too much a part of the structure that would never accept him, for them to happen.

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And long before “sapiosexual” became a buzzword in online dating profiles, Ginsburg emphasized that Marty was “the only young man I dated who cared that I had a brain.”

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A sapiosexual, for those who didn’t catch the segment, is someone attracted to intellect, which is a bit of a humblebrag.

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