Definitions
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- noun A man who adopts a traditional masculine style in dress and manners.
- noun humorous One who has not had sex in a very long time
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Examples
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But of course there's also a retrosexual, which is a man with an under developed ascetic sense who spends as little time and money on his appearance as possible.
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I've spoken various times on TV about the "retrosexual" syndrome which is basically the idea of being stuck in the past.
Dr. Paula Bloom: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Can Facebook Help You Grieve? 2010
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I've spoken various times on TV about the "retrosexual" syndrome which is basically the idea of being stuck in the past.
Dr. Paula Bloom: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Can Facebook Help You Grieve? Dr. Paula Bloom 2010
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As a woman, I have to say, I welcome the 'retrosexual' idea.
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And the term "retrosexual" has all but replaced "metrosexual" in the lifestyle sections of national magazines, which are full of stories about affluent urbanites wearing hunting garb, buying designer axes, and writing about the art of manliness on blogs with names like (ahem) the Art of Manliness.
Men’s Lib 2010
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That said, I'll take the metrosexual over the retrosexual.
Mark Simpson and Caroline Hagood on Wo-Metrosexuality and the City 2010
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CH: Hey, if you're gonna get slashed in macho, retrosexual rage, it might as well be by the guy who coined the term metrosexuality -- there's a sort of poetic justice to it.
Mark Simpson and Caroline Hagood on Wo-Metrosexuality and the City 2010
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Or so say a spate of ads, books and websites that hail the emergence of the retrosexual, whose attitude and style hearken back to the strong, silent type of the '50s and early '60s.
Archive 2010-05-23 Bill Crider 2010
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CH: Hey, if you're gonna get slashed in macho, retrosexual rage, it might as well be by the guy who coined the term metrosexuality -- there's a sort of poetic justice to it.
Caroline Hagood: Mark Simpson and Caroline Hagood on Wo-Metrosexuality and the City 2010
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That said, I'll take the metrosexual over the retrosexual.
Caroline Hagood: Mark Simpson and Caroline Hagood on Wo-Metrosexuality and the City 2010
whichbe commented on the word retrosexual
The antithesis of the metrosexual: a man with an undeveloped aesthetic sense who spends as little time and money as possible on his appearance and lifestyle.
May 13, 2008
humongoloid commented on the word retrosexual
exactly like a metrosexual, except all his stylistic choices are derived from the past. a retrosexual has a fondness for keeping alive relics or antiquaries as a source of individuality.
September 23, 2009