"Sapiosexual?" - Attraction to Intelligence?

[Overture Libra]

So I was scrolling down my feed on a social network site a week or two ago, and I saw a post that was supposedly factual. It said something like "Did you know that a sapiosexual is someone that is attracted to intelligence in others?" Of course, with it being online and being a random fact of the internet, I just shrugged it off because of how many things online that are stated as true when they're actually false.

I remembered it today, and I Google'd for the term and, yet again, I got a couple of results back supporting it. The problem is, it's not on any official "dictionary" site like Merriam Webster. So, does anyone know if there's a better term for it, or is the term "sapiosexual" just some sort of new slang word to describe something yet to be officially coined?

My whole life I've been attracted to intelligence in others and I've never known there would ever be a term to describe it. Is there anyone else out there that is particularly attracted to intelligence (as in more attracted to those more intelligent, with other factors in play), or is it something more rare and not so normal?

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What are you asking exactly? Because that surely isn't a real sexuality.

[Emerald Dream]

I really like when people are intelligent, and it's one of the most important qualities for me in other people.

Are we really just going to slap "-sexual" on to anything and everything nowadays, though? Give me a break. It's getting to the point of eye-rolling.

[Overture Libra]

I never said that I supported it, which is why I asked if there's a legitimate term out there for it.


What are you asking exactly? Because that surely isn't a real sexuality.
Yes, it shouldn't be taken as a real, actual sexuality. I forgot to mention that I'm heterosexual, although at the same time I cross over into the "particularly attracted to intelligence" aspect of the pseudo-term. And what I'm asking is if there's any known term out there for it besides the current urban one that's obviously just slang, and if it's uncommon to be attracted towards intelligence and hold it in significantly high regard towards other aspects of a person.

[Emerald Dream]

Attraction to intelligence is a preference of a trait, not a sexuality.

[Bazinga]

I've seen the same post myself lots of times. Does it mean you're attracted to intelligence itself (which is impossible because intelligence isn't a living thing or an object you cant have a relationship with intelligence) or does it mean you're only attracted to people who're intelligent?

either way you can't say that is a sexuality - just a quality you like people to have.