sexology

English

Etymology

sex +‎ -ology

Noun

sexology (countable and uncountable, plural sexologies)

1. The study of sex and sexuality, usually from a psychological or clinical perspective.

Synonyms

• sexual psychology

Derived terms

• sexological
• sexologist

Translations

The study of sex and sexuality

• Arabic: طِبّ جِنْسِيّ‎ m (ṭibb jinsiyy)
• Bengali: যৌনবিদ্যা (yaunbidyā)
• Catalan: sexologia f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 性學, 性学 (sing³ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 性學 (zh), 性学 (zh) (xìngxué)

• Czech: sexuologie (cs) f
• Danish: sexologi c
• Dutch: seksuologie (nl) f
• Finnish: seksologia (fi), sukupuolioppi, seksologia (fi)
• French: sexologie (fr) f
• Galician: sexoloxía f
• German: Sexualwissenschaft (de) f
• Greek: σεξολογία (el) (sexología)
• Hebrew: סקסולוגיה‎ (he) f
• Italian: sessuologia (it) f

• Japanese: 性科学 (せいかがく, seikagaku)
• Khmer: ភេទវិទ្យា (phet vi tyea)
• Lithuanian: seksologija f
• Norwegian: sexologi m
• Polish: seksuologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: sexologia (pt) f
• Romanian: sexologie (ro) f
• Russian: сексоло́гия (ru) f (sɛksológija)
• Serbo-Croatian: seksologija (sh) f
• Spanish: sexología f
• Swedish: sexologi c
• Tagalog: dalubsarian
• Thai: เพศศาสตร์ (pêt sàat)
• Turkish: cinsellik bilimi (tr), seksoloji (tr)
• Vietnamese: tình dục học
• Welsh: rhywoleg