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adj
Technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Expressing, or pertaining to the expression of, sexuality through technology or technological media.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Someone with a sexual fetish for or sexual attraction to machines, robots, computers or androids.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A person, especially a male metrosexual, who expresses himself or herself (including in terms of sexuality) through technological devices.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: neologism
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History
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.
