bisexual

See also: bisexuál

English

Etymology

From bi- +‎ -sexual. Attested about 1808 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 people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and the brain or mind of a person attracted to "both" sexes (or the same sex) must be partly of the opposite sex and thus "hermaphroditic".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/

Adjective

bisexual (comparative more bisexual, superlative most bisexual)

1. (of humans or other animals) Sexually attracted to both men and women (by a narrow definition) or to people of multiple or any genders (by a broad definition; compare pansexual).

   Synonyms: (slang) AC/DC, (jocular) ambidextrous, (colloquial) bi, omnifutuent

2. (chiefly botany) Having both male and female parts or functions.
   1. (botany) Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
   2. (botany) Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
   3. (botany) Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
   4. (botany) Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
   5. (rare) Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.

      Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.

      • 2004, Lois Bragg, Oedipus Borealis: The Aberrant Body in Old Icelandic Myth and Saga (→ISBN):

        To say that Loki is bisexual means that he readily alternates between the male and female sexes, becoming female at will or as needed.

      • 2013, Zainab Bahrani, Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia (→ISBN):

        Among the arguments put forth for Ishtar's hermaphroditic or bisexual character is the practice of transvestism in religious rites associated with her (e.g. Harris 2000: 170; Groneberg 1986: 39).

      • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bisexual.

Synonyms

• (botany: having male and female organs): perfect, hermaphrodite
• See also Thesaurus:bisexual

Hyponyms

• heteroflexible, homoflexible

Coordinate terms

• (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexual (-ity, ace), bisexual (-ity, bi), demisexual (-ity, demi), graysexual (-ity), heterosexual (-ity, straight), homosexual (-ity, gay, lesbian), omnisexual (-ity), pansexual (-ity, pan), plurisexual (-ity), polysexual (-ity), robosexual (-ity), sapiosexual (-ity), androsexual (-ity), gynesexual (-ity), vegansexual (-ity) ^{(Category: en:Sexual orientations)}

Related terms

• bi-curious
• biromantic
• bisexualism, bisexualist
• bisexualize, bisexualization

 

Translations

sexually attracted to both men and women

• Albanian: i dygjinishëm (sq)
• Armenian: երկսեռական (erkseṙakan)
• Azerbaijani: ikicinsli
• Catalan: bisexual (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雙性戀的／双性恋的 (zh), 双性恋的 (zh) (shuāngxìngliàn de)

• Czech: bisexuální
• Dutch: biseksueel (nl)
• Esperanto: ambaŭseksema (eo)
• Estonian: biseksuaalne
• Faroese: tvíkyndur
• Finnish: biseksuaalinen (fi)
• French: bisexuel (fr)
• Galician: bisexual m or f
• Georgian: ბისექსუალი (biseksuali)
• German: bisexuell (de), bi (de)
• Greek: αμφιφυλόφιλος (el) (amfifylófilos)
• Haitian Creole: biseksyèl
• Hebrew: דּוּ מִינִי (he) (du miní), ביסקסואלי (biseksuáli)
• Hindi: उभयलिंगी (ubhayliṅgī)
• Hungarian: biszexuális (hu)
• Icelandic: tvíkynhneigður
• Ido: bisexuala (io)
• Interlingua: bisexual
• Interlingue:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: déghnéasach
• Italian: bisessuale (it) m or f
• Japanese: 両性愛の (りょうせいあいの, ryōseiai no), バイセクシュアルな (ja) (baisekushuaru na)
• Korean: 양성애 (ko) (yangseong'ae)
• Latin: bisexuālis
• Malay: dwijantina, dwiseks, dwiseksual, biseks, biseksual
• Maltese: bisesswali
• Norman: bisexuel
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: دوجنس‌گرا (do-jens-garâ)
• Polish: biseksualny (pl) m
• Portuguese: bissexual (pt), bi (pt)
• Russian: бисексуа́льный (ru) (bisɛksuálʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-ghnèitheach, dà-mhiannach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: би̏сексуа̄лан

  Roman: bȉseksuālan (sh)

• Slovak: bisexuálny (sk)
• Spanish: bisexual (es)
• Swedish: bisexuell (sv)
• Tajik: дуҷинсгаро (tg) (dujinsgaro)
• Turkish: biseksüel (tr)
• Welsh: deurywiol (cy)

botany: having both male and female organs

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兩性的／两性的 (zh), 两性的 (zh) (liǎngxìng de), 雙性的／双性的, 双性的 (shuāngxìng de)

• Dutch: tweeslachtig (nl)
• Faroese: tvíkynjaður
• Finnish: kaksineuvoinen (fi)
• French: bisexué (fr)
• German: bisexuell (de), zweigeschlechtig, zweigeschlechtlich
• Hebrew: דּוּ מִינִי (he) (du miní)
• Icelandic: tvíkynja
• Ido: bisexua (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingue:
• Irish: déghnéasach
• Italian: bisessuale (it), ermafrodita
• Japanese: 両性的な (りょうせいてきな, ryōseiteki na), 両性の (りょうせいの, ryōsei no)
• Malay: dwijantina, dwiseks, dwiseksual, biseks, biseksual
• Maltese: bisesswali, mara-raġel
• Portuguese: bissexuado
• Russian: двупо́лый (ru) (dvupólyj)
• Slovak: obojpohlavný
• Swedish: tvåkönad (sv)
• Tagalog: duhansariin

hermaphrodite — see hermaphrodite

Noun

bisexual (plural bisexuals)

1. A person who is bisexual.
   • 1984, Women and deviance, page 63:

     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.

   Synonym: (colloquial) bi

   Hypernym: LGBT

2. (botany, rare) A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:bisexual

Translations

bisexual person

• Armenian: երկսեռական (erkseṙakan)
• Catalan: bisexual (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雙性戀者／双性恋者, 双性恋者 (shuāngxìngliànzhě)

• Czech: bisexuál (cs) m
• Dutch: biseksueel (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: ambaŭseksemulo (male or female), ambaŭseksemuliĉo (male, neologism), ambaŭseksemulino (female)
• Estonian: biseksuaal, bi (et)
• Faroese: tvíkyndur m, tvíkynd f
• Finnish: biseksuaali (fi), (colloquial) bi (fi)
• French: bisexuel (fr) m, bisexuelle (fr) f
• German: Bisexuelle (de) f, Bisexueller (de) m
• Greek: αμφιφυλόφιλος (el) m (amfifylófilos), αμφιφυλόφιλη f (amfifylófili)
• Greenlandic: angutinik arnanillu atoqateqartartoq
• Hebrew: ביסקסואלי
• Ido: bisexualo, bisexualulo m, bisexualino f
• Indonesian: biseksual (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingua: bisexual
• Italian: bisessuale (it) m or f, bisex m or f
• Japanese: 両性愛者 (りょうせいあいしゃ, ryōseiaisha), バイセクシュアル (ja) (baisekushuaru)
• Maori: takatāpui kaharua
• Norman: bisexuel m, bisexuelle f
• Northern Sami: bifiila, biseksuála
• Persian: دوجنس‌گرا (do-jens-garâ)
• Polish: biseksualista (pl) m, (colloquial) bi (pl)
• Portuguese: bissexual (pt), bi (pt) m or f
• Russian: бисексуа́л (ru) m (bisɛksuál), бисексуа́лка (ru) f (bisɛksuálka)
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-ghnèitheach m
• Slovak: bisexuál (sk) m, bisexuálka f
• Spanish: bisexual (es) m or f
• Swedish: bi (sv) n, bisexuell (sv)
• Tajik: дуҷинсгаро (tg) (dujinsgaro)
• Thai: ชอบทั้งสองเพศ, เสือไบ
• Turkish: biseksüel (tr)

See also

• (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexual (-ity, ace), bisexual (-ity, bi), demisexual (-ity, demi), graysexual (-ity), heterosexual (-ity, straight), homosexual (-ity, gay, lesbian), omnisexual (-ity), pansexual (-ity, pan), plurisexual (-ity), polysexual (-ity), robosexual (-ity), sapiosexual (-ity), androsexual (-ity), gynesexual (-ity), vegansexual (-ity) ^{(Category: en:Sexual orientations)}

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bi.zə.ʃuˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [bi.ze.ʃuˈal]

Adjective

bisexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural bisexuals)

1. bisexual

Noun

bisexual m or f (plural bisexuals)

1. bisexual

Related terms

• bisexualitat

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Interlingua

Adjective

bisexual (not comparable)

1. bisexual

Noun

bisexual (plural bisexuales)

1. bisexual

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Romanian

Etymology

From French bisexuel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbi.se.ksuˈal/

Adjective

bisexual m or n (feminine singular bisexuală, masculine plural bisexuali, feminine and neuter plural bisexuale)

1. bisexual

Declension

Declension of bisexual

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	bisexual		bisexuală	bisexuali	bisexuale
	definite	bisexualul		bisexuala	bisexualii	bisexualele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	bisexual		bisexuale	bisexuali	bisexuale
	definite	bisexualului		bisexualei	bisexualelor	bisexualilor

Noun

bisexual m (plural bisexuali, feminine equivalent bisexuală)

1. bisexual

Declension

Declension of bisexual

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) bisexual	bisexualul	(niște) bisexuali	bisexualii
genitive/dative	(unui) bisexual	bisexualului	(unor) bisexuali	bisexualilor
vocative	bisexualule		bisexualilor

Related terms

• bisexualitate

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Spanish

Etymology

From bi- +‎ sexual.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biseɡˈswal/ [bi.seɣ̞ˈswal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

bisexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural bisexuales)

1. bisexual

Noun

bisexual m or f (plural bisexuales)

1. bisexual