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same-sexness

noun

Etymology

From same-sex + -ness.

Definitions

  1. The condition of having or being of the same sex.

    • Thus since twins occur in almost one percent of the cases, the probability of same-sexness would be increased from .500 to at most .502, […]

  2. Homosexuality.

    • Though he dwells mostly on the affairs of men — which would make the same-sexness an obvious result — instances in which women suffer punishment are usually engineered by other women.
    • Grimsrud consistently argues against a position that would see some "inherent wrongness" with same-sexness rather than with certain forms of same-sex activities.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for same-sexness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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