sex characteristic

Questions about sex characteristic

What does sex characteristic mean?

sex characteristic means "those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other".

What is another word for sex characteristic?

Close synonyms include sexual characteristic, sex character. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sex characteristic a common word?

sex characteristic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sex characteristic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.