» sex characteristic
Noun (1 meaning)
1. those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other.
sex characteristic is a type of:
- feature, characteristic (noun) - a prominent attribute or aspect of something
types of sex characteristic:
- primary sex characteristic, primary sexual characteristic, primary sex character (noun) - the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction)
- secondary sex characteristic, secondary sexual characteristic, secondary sex character (noun) - the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature)
- virilism (noun) - the development of male secondary sexual characteristics in a female (or prematurely in a young boy)