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bisexual

adj
/baɪˈsɛk.ʃʊ.əl/UK/baɪˈsɛk.ʃ(əw).əl/US

Etymology

From bi- + -sexual, via the French bisexuel (bi-, sexuel). Attested since 1792 as a synonym in botany for "hermaphroditic" ("having male and female parts"). First used of sexuality in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis (in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof, due to the theory that people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and so the brain or mind of a person attracted to "both" sexes (or to the same sex) must be partly of another sex and thus "hermaphroditic".

  1. derived from translation thereof
  2. derived from bisexuel

Definitions

  1. Sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals. (Compare pansexual.)

    • Skirt Club caters to bisexual or bicurious women. No men are allowed, but women with all levels of experience in same-sex sexuality, from bicurious to fully lesbian, are welcomed.

  2. Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.

  3. Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or…

    Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).

    • We also know that bisexual species reproduce during a longer period than hermaphrodite species.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction

      Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).

      • […] where the parthenogenetic and bisexual generations do not differ in any character except their manner of reproduction[…]

    2. A person who is bisexual.

      • Several chapters are devoted to the investigations of the origins and influences prevalent in the life of a bisexual with the latter portion of the book devoted to three extensive in-depth interviews with three bisexuals.

    3. A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.

    4. An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.

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Derived

antibisexual, bi-dyke, bisexuality, bisexual lighting, bisexually, bisexual marriage, bisexualness, bisexy, BUG, bytesexual, lesbigay, lesbigaytrans, nonbisexual, pseudobisexual

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bisexual. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at bisexual. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at bisexual

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA