Definition of "opposite sex" []

• The other gender to which one is referring, often when referring to oneself. (noun)

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• "This hypothesis I would define as the unconscious biological directing of the energy of the child towards the parent of the opposite sex and away from that of the same sex."
• "In time, all feeling for the opposite sex was cut off, and intercourse limited to the barest politenesses."
• "Would you ever skinny-dip with members of the opposite sex or, if you swing that way, members of the same sex?"