Novosexual

An orientation in which a person's sexual orientation changes together with their gender identity. As their gender shifts, the genders they are attracted to shift in step. Effectively a combination of abrosexual (fluid orientation) and genderfluid (fluid gender). The romantic equivalent is novoromantic.

Latin novo- (to alter, to change) + sexual. Coined, along with novoromantic, by Tumblr user jacobsshinobu on or before June 15, 2014.

Part of the 2014 wave of Tumblr identity-coinage. The "novo-" prefix was created as an umbrella for orientations that change in lockstep with gender. For example, a novosexual person might be attracted to women when they feel like a man, and to multiple genders when they feel non-binary. Dedicated novosexual flags were created by MoonJellyBuniny on August 15, 2020, with colors drawn from the abrosexual and genderfluid flags.

The attribution to jacobsshinobu rests on secondhand community records. The original 2014 post could not be located in either a live or an archived form, so the coining date should be read as approximate.

• "Novosexual is just abrosexual." Abrosexual describes a fluid orientation on its own; novosexual specifically ties that fluidity to gender change, so the two fluctuate together.
• "This is too complicated to be a real orientation." For genderfluid people whose attractions track their gender, novosexual names a real and otherwise hard-to-describe pattern in a single word.