homosexuality
Meanings
Plural: homosexualities
Noun
- a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
- 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.
- Sexual activity with a person of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex sex between males.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, inversionism, queerness, SSAD, uranism, urningism
Antonyms
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