lesbianism

English

Etymology

From lesbian +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛzbiəˌnɪzəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

lesbianism (countable and uncountable, plural lesbianisms)

1. Female homosexuality; the state of a woman being sexually attracted to other women.
   • 2018, Alexandra M. Lucas, “From Smoldering Justicar to Blue-Skinned Space Babe: Asari Sexuality in Mass Effect”, in Heidi McDonald, editor, Digital Love: Romance and Sexuality in Video Games‎^[1], CRC Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 72:

     Because all Asari present as female and use female pronouns, the deadly sexual nature of Ardat-Yakshi may reflect the continued fear of lesbianism that persists among many in human society.

Synonyms

• lesbiandom
• lesbianhood
• lesbianness

Hypernyms

• gayness
• homosexuality

Holonyms

• LGBTQ

Derived terms

• lipstick lesbianism
• political lesbianism

 

Translations

Female homosexuality

• Arabic: سِحَاق m (siḥāq)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: lesbianisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女同性戀／女同性恋 (zh) (nǚ tóngxìngliàn)

• Danish: lesbianisme c
• Finnish: lesbous (fi), lesbolaisuus (fi)
• French: lesbianisme (fr) m
• Galician: lesbianismo m
• Georgian: ლესბოსელობა (lesboseloba), ლესბიანიზმი (lesbianizmi), დედათმავლობა (dedatmavloba) (nonstandard, sometimes humorous, back-formation)
• German: Lesbischsein, Lesbianismus
• Greenlandic: arnaqatinik atoqateqartarneq
• Italian: lesbismo (it) m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: lesbiannisme m (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: lesbavuohta
• Portuguese: lesbianismo (pt) f
• Romanian: lesbianism (ro) n
• Russian: лесбия́нство (ru) n (lesbijánstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: lezbijanìzam (sh) m
• Slovak: lesbizmus (sk) m
• Spanish: lesbianismo m
• Swedish: lesbiskhet (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: лесбія́нство n (lesbijánstvo), лесбі́йство n (lesbíjstvo)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Yoruba: ìnífẹ̀ẹ́-obìnrin-sóbìnrin

Romanian

Etymology

From lesbian +‎ -ism.

Noun

lesbianism n (uncountable)

1. lesbianism

Declension

Declension of lesbianism

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lesbianism	lesbianismul	(niște) lesbianisme	lesbianismele
genitive/dative	(unui) lesbianism	lesbianismului	(unor) lesbianisme	lesbianismelor
vocative	lesbianismule		lesbianismelor