English [ edit ] Wikipedia
Etymology [ edit ] homosexual -ity
Pronunciation [ edit ] homosexuality (usually uncountable , plural homosexualities
The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily to persons of the same sex.
Sexual activity with a person of the same sex.
Usage notes [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Antonyms [ edit ] Hyponyms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
sexual orientation
Afrikaans: homoseksualiteit
Albanian: homoseksualitet m homoseksualizëm m
Arabic: مثلية f miṯlíyya ), مثلية جنسية f miṯlíyya jinsíyya ), هوموسكسواليه f humusiksuwālíyya, homoseksuwālíyya )
Egyptian Arabic: هوموسكسواليه f homoseksuwālíyya )
Armenian: համասեռամոլություն hamaseṙamolutʿyun )
Asturian: homosexualidá f
Azeri: homoseksualizm
Basque: homosexualitate (eu)
Belarusian: гомасексуалізм m homasjeksualízm ), гомасэксуалізм m homaseksualízm )
Bengali: সমকামিতা sômôkamita )
Breton: heñvelrevelezh
Bulgarian: хомосексуалност f homoseksuálnost )
Burmese: လိင်တူဆက်ဆံခြင်း
Catalan: homosexualitat f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 同性戀 同性恋 tung4 sing3 lyun2 )
Mandarin: 同性戀 (zh) , 同性恋 (zh) (tóngxìngliàn )
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 homosek’sualoba )
German: Homosexualität (de) f
Greek: ομοφυλοφιλία (el) f omofylofilía )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: הומוסקסואליות f homoseksualiot )
Hindi: समलैंगिकता samlaiṅgiktā )
Hungarian: homoszexualitás (hu)
Icelandic: samkynhneigð f
Indonesian: homoseksualitas (id)
Interlingua: homosexualitate
Irish: homaighnéasachas m homaighnéasacht f
Italian: omosessualità (it) f
Japanese: 同性愛 どうせいあい, dōseiai )
Jèrriais: homosexualité f
Korean: 동성애 (ko) (dongseong-ae ) (同性愛 (ko) )
Kurdish: homoseksûalîte
Latin: homosexualitas f
Latvian: homoseksualitāte f
Ligurian: omosessualitæ
Lithuanian: homoseksualumas (lt)
Lombard: omosessüalitaa f
Luxembourgish: Homosexualitéit (lb)
Macedonian: хомосексуалност f homoseksuálnost )
Maltese: omosesswalità f
Nahuatl: cuilonyōtl
Northern Sami: homoseksualitehta
Norwegian:
Bokmål: homoseksualitet m
Persian: همجنسگرایی ham-jens-garâyi )
Piedmontese: omossessualità f
Polish: homoseksualizm (pl) m
Portuguese: homossexualidade (pt) f
Romanian: homosexualitate (ro) f
Russian: гомосексуальность (ru) f gomosɛksuálʹnostʹ ), гомосексуализм (ru) m gomosɛksualízm )
Scottish Gaelic: co-sheòrsachd f fearas-feise m banas-feise f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хомосексуа́лно̄ст f
Roman: homoseksuálnōst f
Sicilian: omosessualità f omusissualità (scn) f
Silesian: buzeranctwo
Slovak: homosexualita f
Slovene: homoseksualnost (sl) f
Spanish: homosexualidad (es) f
Swedish: homosexualitet (sv) c
Tagalog: homoseksuwalidad
Tajik: ҳамҷинсгароӣ hamjinsgaroyī )
Tamil: ஓரினச்சேர்க்கை ōriṉaccērkkai ), தற்பால்சேர்க்கை taṟpālcērkkai )
Thai: รักร่วมเพศ rák-rûam-pêt )
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 )
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