homosexuality
nounEtymology
From homosexual + -ity, equivalent to homo- + sexuality and after the model of German Homosexualität, coined by journalist Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1869, and French homosexualité, attested in 1891.
- derived from homosexualité
- derived from Homosexualität
Definitions
The state of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the same…
The state of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex attraction between males.
- Great diminution or complete absence of sexual feeling for the opposite sex, with substitution of sexual feeling and instinct for the same sex. (Homo-sexuality, or contrary sexual instinct).
- Some of the experts have gone into the question of homosexuality with great care, and advanced sundry learned and scientific theories in regard to that abnormal condition.
Sexual activity with a person of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive)…
Sexual activity with a person of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex sex between males.
- Bourneville believes that 75 per cent. of the inmates of the Parisian venereal hospitals have practised homosexuality.
- A Prussian proposal for a harsh penal code made male homosexuality an even more serious crime.
The neighborhood
- synonymgayness
- synonymhomosexualism
- synonymurningism
- synonymuranism
- synonymSSAD
- synonyminversionism
- antonymheterosexuality
- antonymstraightness
- neighborhomosexual
- neighborhomoromanticism
- neighborhomoflexibility
- neighborhomogenitality
- neighborLGBT
- neighborGLBT
- neighborgay
- neighborlesbian
- neighborqueerness
- neighborlesbianism
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at homosexuality. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at homosexuality. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at homosexuality
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