homosexuality

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Etymology

homosexual +‎ -ity.

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Noun

homosexuality (usually uncountable; plural homosexualities)

1. The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily to persons of the same sex.
2. Sexual activity with a person of the same sex.

Usage notes

Homosexuality in women is also known as lesbianism. As homosexuality applies to people of either sex, the expression homosexuality and lesbianism is redundant and is best replaced by homosexuality or lesbianism alone as appropriate. Different cultural constructions of same-sex love are collectively referred to as homosexualities.

Synonyms

• gayness (colloquial)
• lesbianism (applied only to women)
• uranism (rare)

Antonyms

• heterosexuality
• straightness (slang)

Translations

sexual orientation

Afrikaans: homoseksualiteit (af) Albanian: homoseksualitet (sq) m., homoseksualizëm (sq) m. Arabic: مثلية (ar), مثلية جنسية (ar) f. Egyptian Arabic: هوموسكسواليه Armenian: համասեռամոլություն (hy) (hamaseṙamolut’yun) Asturian: homosexualidá (ast) f. Azeri: please add this translation if you can Basque: homosexualitate (eu) Belarusian: гомасексуалізм (be) (homaseksualizm) m. Bengali: সমকামিতা (bn) (sômôkamita) Breton: heñvelrevelezh (br) Bulgarian: хомосексуалност (bg) (homoseksualnost) f. Catalan: homosexualitat (ca) f. Chinese: Cantonese: trad. 同性戀, simpl. 同性恋 (Jyutping: tung4 sing3 lyun2) Mandarin: trad. 同性戀, simpl. 同性恋 (pinyin: tóngxìngliàn) Czech: homosexualita (cs) f. Danish: homoseksualitet (da) c. Dutch: homoseksualiteit (nl) f. Esperanto: samseksemo (eo) Estonian: homoseksuaalsus (et) Finnish: homoseksuaalisuus (fi), homous (fi) French: homosexualité (fr) f. Galician: homosexualidade (gl) f. Georgian: ჰომოსექსუალობა (ka) (homoseksualoba) German: Homosexualität (de) f. Greek: ομοφυλοφιλία (el) (omofilofilía) f. Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: הומוסקסואליות (he) (homoseksualiot) f. Hindi: समलैंगिकता (hi) Hungarian: homoszexualitás (hu) Icelandic: samkynhneigð (is) f. Indonesian: homoseksualitas (id) Interlingua: homosexualitate (ia) Irish: homaighnéasachas (ga) m., homaighnéasacht (ga) f. Italian: omosessualità (it) f. Japanese: 同性愛 (ja) (どうせいあい, dōseiai) Korean: 동성애 (ko) (tongseonge) Kurdish: homoseksûalîte (ku) Latin: homosexualitas (la) f.

Latvian: homoseksualitāte (lv) f. Ligurian: omosessualitæ Lithuanian: homoseksualumas (lt) Lombard: omosessüalitaa f. Luxembourgish: Homosexualitéit (lb) Macedonian: хомосексуалност (mk) (homoseksuálnost) f. Maltese: please add this translation if you can Nahuatl: cuilonyōtl (nah) Persian: هم‌جنس‌گرایی (fa) (ham-jens-garâyi) Piedmontese: omossessualità f. Polish: homoseksualizm (pl) m. Portuguese: homossexualidade (pt) f. Romanian: homosexualitate (ro) f. Russian: гомосексуальность (ru) (gomoseksuál’nost’) f., гомосексуализм (ru) (gomoseksualízm) m. Scottish Gaelic: co-sheòrsachd (gd) f., fearas-feise (gd) m. ("masculine coitus", slang), banas-feise (gd) f. ("feminine coitus", slang) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хомосексуа́лно̄ст (sh) f. Roman: homoseksuálnōst (sh) f. Sicilian: omosessualità (scn) f., omusissualità (scn) f. Silesian: buzeranctwo Slovak: homosexualita (sk) f. Slovene: homoseksualnost (sl) f. Spanish: homosexualidad (es) f. Swedish: homosexualitet (sv) c. Tagalog: homoseksuwalidad (tl) Tajik: ҳамҷинсгароӣ (tg) (hamjinsgaroī) Tamil: ஓரினச்சேர்க்கை (ta), தற்பால்சேர்க்கை (ta) Thai: รักร่วมเพศ (th) (rák-rûam-pêt) Turkish: eşcinsellik (tr), homoseksüellik (tr) Ukrainian: гомосексуалі́зм (uk) (homoseksualízm) Uzbek: gomoseksuallik (uz) Vietnamese: tính tình dục đồng giới (vi), đồng tính luyến ái (vi) Welsh: gwrywgydiaeth (cy) Yiddish: האמאסעקסואלוטעט (yi) (homoseksualutet)

See also

• (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexuality, bisexuality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, omnisexuality, pansexuality, polysexuality ^{(Category: en:Sexuality) [edit]}
• pederasty
• homosexual
• gay
• lesbian
• GLBT