technosexual

发音

UK /ˌtɛk.nəʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
US /ˌtɛk.noʊˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/

词形变化

technosexuals 复数 technosexuals

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Someone with a sexual fetish for or sexual attraction to machines, robots, computers or androids.

  2. 2.

    A person, especially a male metrosexual, who expresses himself or herself (including in terms of sexuality) through technological devices.

    Metrosexuals have opened the door to close kin such as technosexuals (basically, metrosexuals who like gadgets).

    But fast forward to today and it seems Mr. Joe has become a full-blown technosexual icon […]

adj.
  1. 1.

    Technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.

    […] Women of the time were constructed to be the technosexual Other, robot-like & programmable, as in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927). Other images of women as sex machine in film & literature of the time are described. […]

  2. 2.

    Expressing, or pertaining to the expression of, sexuality through technology or technological media.

词源

From techno- + -sexual. First attested (as techno-sexual) in the 18 May 1970 edition of New York Magazine. Not attested again until the late 1990s, as technosexual.

来源：wiktionary