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noun
Homosexuality, the state of being homosexual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A purported ideology behind (and promoting) homosexuality; gayness viewed as an ideology rather than a sexual orientation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, uncountable
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Synonyms: gayism
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: homosexuality, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
Narrower terms: inversion, sexual inversion, lesbianism, sapphism, pederasty, paederasty
History
Etymology tree English homosexual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English homosexualism From homosexual + -ism.
