homosexuality

English

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Etymology

homosexual +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ælɪti

Noun

homosexuality (usually uncountable, plural homosexualities)

1. The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the same sex.
2. Sexual activity with a person of the same sex.
3. The inability to form a permanent bond with a member of the opposite 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, queerness
• homosexualism
• lesbianism (applied only to women)
• uranism (rare)

Antonyms

• heterosexuality
• straightness (slang)

Translations

sexual orientation

• Afrikaans: homoseksualiteit
• Albanian: homoseksualitet m, homoseksualizëm (sq) m
• Arabic: مِثْلِيَّة‏‎ f (miṯliyya), مِثْلِيَّة جِنْسِيَّة‏‎ f (miṯliyya jinsiyya), هُومُوسِكْسُوَالِيَّة‏‎ f (homoseksuwāliyya), هُومُوسِكْسُوَالِيَّة‏‎ f (homoseksuwāliyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: هوموسكسواليه‏‎ f (homoseksuwālíyya)

• Armenian: համասեռամոլություն (hy) (hamaseṙamolutʿyun)
• Asturian: homosexualidá f
• Azeri: homoseksualizm, homoseksuallıq
• Basque: homosexualitate (eu)
• Belarusian: гомасексуалізм m (homasjeksualízm), гомасэксуалізм m (homaseksualízm)
• Bengali: সমকামিতা (sômôkamita)
• Breton: heñvelrevelezh
• Bulgarian: хомосексуалност f (homoseksuálnost)
• Burmese: လိင်တူဆက်ဆံခြင်း (lingtuhcakhcamhkrang:)
• Catalan: homosexualitat f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 同性戀, 同性恋 (tung⁴ sing³ lyun²)

  Mandarin: 同性戀 (zh), 同性恋 (zh) (tóngxìngliàn)

• Classical Nahuatl: cuilonyōtl
• Czech: homosexualita (cs) f
• Danish: homoseksualitet (da) c
• Dutch: homoseksualiteit (nl) f
• Esperanto: samseksemo
• Estonian: homoseksuaalsus (et)
• Finnish: homoseksuaalisuus (fi), homous (fi)
• French: homosexualité (fr) f
• Galician: homosexualidade (gl) f
• Georgian: ჰომოსექსუალობა (homoseksualoba)
• German: Homosexualität (de) f
• Greek: ομοφυλοφιλία (el) f (omofylofilía)
• Greenlandic: suiaqatinik atoqateqartarneq
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: הומוסקסואליות‏‎ f (homoseksualiut)
• Hindi: समलैंगिकता (samlaiṅgiktā)
• Hungarian: homoszexualitás (hu)
• Icelandic: samkynhneigð f
• Ido: homeosexualeso (io)
• Indonesian: homoseksualitas (id)
• Interlingua: homosexualitate
• Irish: homaighnéasachas m, homaighnéasacht f
• Italian: omosessualità (it) f
• Japanese: 同性愛 (ja) (どうせいあい, dōseiai)

• Korean: 동성애 (ko) (dongseong-ae) (同性愛 (ko))
• Kurdish: homoseksûalîte
• Latin: homosexualitas f
• Latvian: homoseksualitāte (lv) f
• Ligurian: omosessualitæ
• Lithuanian: homoseksualumas (lt)
• Lombard: omosessüalitaa f
• Luxembourgish: Homosexualitéit (lb)
• Macedonian: хомосексуалност f (homoseksuálnost)
• Maltese: omosesswalità f
• Nahuatl: cuilonyōtl
• Norman: homosexualité f
• Northern Sami: homoseksualitehta
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: homoseksualitet m

• Persian: هم‌جنس‌گرایی‏‎ (fa) (ham-jens-garâyi)
• Piedmontese: omossessualità f
• Polish: homoseksualizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: homossexualidade (pt) f
• Romanian: homosexualitate (ro) f
• Russian: гомосексуа́льность (ru) f (gomosɛksuálʹnostʹ), гомосексуали́зм (ru) m (gomosɛksualízm)
• Scottish Gaelic: co-sheòrsachd f, fearas-feise m ("masculine coitus", slang), banas-feise f ("feminine coitus", slang)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хомосексуа́лно̄ст f

  Roman: homoseksuálnōst (sh) f

• Sicilian: omosessualità f, omusissualità (scn) f
• Silesian: buzeranctwo
• Slovak: homosexualita (sk) f
• Slovene: homoseksualnost (sl) f
• Spanish: homosexualidad (es) f
• Swahili: ushoga (sw) class 14
• Swedish: homosexualitet (sv) c
• Tagalog: homoseksuwalidad
• Tajik: ҳамҷинсгароӣ (tg) (hamjinsgaroyī)
• Tamil: ஓரினச்சேர்க்கை (ōriṉaccērkkai), தற்பால்சேர்க்கை (taṟpālcērkkai)
• Thai: รักร่วมเพศ (rák-rûuam-pêet)
• Turkish: eşcinsellik (tr), homoseksüellik (tr)
• Ukrainian: гомосексуалі́зм (homoseksualízm)
• Uzbek: gomoseksuallik
• Vietnamese: tính tình dục đồng giới, đồng tính luyến ái (vi)
• Welsh: gwrywgydiaeth, cyfunrywioldeb
• Yiddish: האמאסעקסואלוטעט‏‎ (homoseksualutet)

See also

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