heterosexuality

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Etymology

From heterosexual +‎ -ity or hetero- +‎ sexuality.

Pronunciation

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Noun

heterosexuality (usually uncountable, plural heterosexualities)

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

Antonyms

• homosexuality (which see for synonyms)

Hyponyms

• heteroflexibility

Related terms

• compulsory heterosexuality
• heterosexual
• heterosociality
• heteroeroticism
• nonheterosexuality
• heterogenitality

Translations

heterosexual orientation

• Afrikaans: heteroseksualiteit
• Arabic: مُغَايَرَة f (muḡāyara), هيتيروسكسوالية f (hītīrūsiksuwāliyya)
• Armenian: հետերոսեքսուալություն (heterosekʻsualutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: heteroseksuallıq
• Catalan: heterosexualitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 異性戀／异性恋 (zh) (yìxìngliàn)

• Czech: heterosexualita (cs) f
• Dutch: heteroseksualiteit (nl) f
• Esperanto: aliseksemo
• Finnish: heterous (fi), heteroseksuaalisuus (fi)
• French: hétérosexualité (fr) f
• Galician: heterosexualidade (gl) f
• Georgian: ჰეტეროსექსუალობა (heṭeroseksualoba)
• German: Heterosexualität (de) f
• Hebrew: הטרוסקסואליות (he) f (heteroseksualiot)
• Hindi: विषमलैंगिकता f (viṣamlaiṅgiktā)
• Hungarian: heteroszexualitás (hu)
• Ido: heterosexualeso (io)
• Italian: eterosessualità (it) f
• Kazakh: өзгежынысқа құштарлық (özgejynysqa qūştarlyq), гетеросексуалдылық (geteroseksualdylyq), гетеросексуалдық (geteroseksualdyq)
• Macedonian: хетеросексуа́лност f (heteroseksuálnost)
• Northern Sami: heteroseksualitehta
• Occitan: eterosexualitat (oc) f, heterosexualitat f
• Persian: دگرجنس‌گرایی (fa) (degar-jens-garâyi)
• Polish: heteroseksualizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: heterossexualidade (pt) f
• Romanian: heterosexualitate (ro) f
• Russian: гетеросексуа́льность (ru) f (geteroseksuálʹnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хетеросексуалност f

  Roman: heteroseksualnost (sh) f

• Slovak: heterosexualita
• Spanish: heterosexualidad (es) f
• Swedish: heterosexualitet (sv) c
• Tajik: дигарҷинсгароӣ (tg) (digarjinsgaroyī)
• Tamil: எதிர்பால்சேர்க்கை (etirpālcērkkai)
• Thai: รักต่างเพศ (rák dàang pêt)
• Turkish: heteroseksüellik (tr)
• Yiddish: העטראָסעקסואַליטעט f (hetroseksualitet)

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)}