homosexuality

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• General-American: /ˌhoʊməˌsɛkʃuˈælɪti/
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• General-American: /ˌhoʊmoʊˌsɛkʃuˈælɪti/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)sɛkʃʊˈælɪti/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˌsɛksjʊˈælɪti/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)-/
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• rhymes with -ælɪti
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From homosexual + -ity, equivalent to homo- + sexuality and after the model of German Homosexualität, coined by journalist Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1869, and French homosexualité, attested in 1891.

179 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: homoseksualiteit — sexual orientation
• Albanian: homoseksualitet — sexual orientation
• Albanian: homoseksualizëm — sexual orientation
• Arabic: مِثْلِيَّة (miṯliyya) — sexual orientation
• Arabic: مِثْلِيَّة جِنْسِيَّة (miṯliyya jinsiyya) — sexual orientation
• Arabic: هُومُوسِكْسُوَالِيَّة (homoseksuwāliyya) — sexual orientation
• Arabic: هوموسكسواليه (homoseksuwālíyya) — sexual orientation
• Armenian: համասեռամոլություն (hamaseṙamolutʻyun) — sexual orientation
• Assamese: সমকামিতা (xomkamita) — sexual orientation
• Asturian: homosexualidá — sexual orientation
• Avar: гомосексуаллъи (gomosekswallsi) — sexual orientation
• Azerbaijani: homoseksualizm — sexual orientation
• Azerbaijani: homoseksuallıq — sexual orientation
• South Azerbaijani: همجینسچیلیک — sexual orientation
• Banjarese: homoseksualitas — sexual orientation
• Bashkir: гомосексуализм (gomosekswalizm) — sexual orientation
• Basque: homosexualitate — sexual orientation
• Belarusian: гомасексуалі́зм (homasjeksualízm) — sexual orientation
• Belarusian: гомасэксуалі́зм (homaseksualízm) — sexual orientation
• Belarusian: гомасексуальнасць (hómasjeksualʹnascʹ) — sexual orientation
• Belarusian: гомасэксуальнасьць (hómaseksualʹnasʹcʹ) — sexual orientation
• Bengali: সমকামিতা (śomkamita) — sexual orientation
• Bihari: समलैंगिकता — sexual orientation
• Breton: heñvelrevelezh — sexual orientation
• Bulgarian: хомосексуа́лност (homoseksuálnost) — sexual orientation
• Bulgarian: обратност (obratnost) — sexual orientation
• Bulgarian: мъжеложство (mǎželožstvo) — sexual orientation
• Bulgarian: обра́тна резба́ (obrátna rezbá) — sexual orientation
• Burmese: လိင်တူဆက်ဆံခြင်း (lingtuhcakhcamhkrang:) — sexual orientation
• Catalan: homosexualitat — sexual orientation
• Cebuano: homosekswalidad — sexual orientation
• Chichewa: mathanyula — sexual orientation
• Chichewa: ugeyi — sexual orientation
• Chinese Cantonese: 同性戀 /同性恋 — sexual orientation
• Eastern Min Chinese: 同性戀 /同性恋 (dùng-séng-luông) — sexual orientation
• Gan Chinese: 同性戀 /同性恋 — sexual orientation
• Chinese: 同性戀 /同性恋 (tông-sèng-loân) — sexual orientation
• Chinese: 同性愛 /同性爱 (tông-sèng-ài) — sexual orientation
• Literary Chinese: 同性戀 (tóngxìngliàn) — sexual orientation
• Chinese Mandarin: 同性戀 /同性恋 (tóngxìngliàn) — sexual orientation
• Wu Chinese: 同性媾 — sexual orientation
• Chuvash: гомосексуаллӑх (gomos̬eksuallăh) — sexual orientation
• Czech: homosexualita — sexual orientation
• Danish: homoseksualitet — sexual orientation
• Doteli: समलैंगिकता (samlaiṅgikatā) — sexual orientation
• Dutch: homoseksualiteit — sexual orientation
• Emilian: omosesuêl — sexual orientation
• Esperanto: samseksemo — sexual orientation
• Estonian: homoseksuaalsus — sexual orientation
• Estonian: homoseksualism — sexual orientation
• Estonian: samasooiharus — sexual orientation
• Faroese: samkyndleiki — sexual orientation
• Finnish: homoseksuaalisuus — sexual orientation
• Finnish: homous — sexual orientation
• Finnish: homoseksualismi — sexual orientation
• French: homosexualité — sexual orientation
• West-Frisian: homoseksualiteit — sexual orientation
• Galician: homosexualidade — sexual orientation
• Georgian: ჰომოსექსუალობა (homoseksualoba) — sexual orientation
• Georgian: ჰომოსექსუალიზმი (homoseksualizmi) — sexual orientation
• Georgian: მამათმავლობა (mamatmavloba) — sexual orientation
• German: Homosexualität — sexual orientation
• German: Homosexualität — sexual orientation
• Bavarian German: Homosexualität — sexual orientation
• Gilaki: همجنسخأيي (hamjensxākī) — sexual orientation
• Greek: ομοφυλοφιλία (omofylofilía) — sexual orientation
• Ancient Greek: κιναιδία (kinaidía) — sexual orientation
• Ancient Greek: ἀρσενοκοιτία (arsenokoitía) — sexual orientation
• Greenlandic: suiaqatinik atoqateqartarneq — sexual orientation
• Gujarati: સમલિંગી (samliṅgī) — sexual orientation
• Gujarati: હોમોસેક્સ્યુઅલ (homoseksyuala) — sexual orientation
• Hausa: kishili — sexual orientation
• Hebrew: הוֹמוֹסֶקְסוּאָלִיּוּת (homoseksuáliut) — sexual orientation
• Hindi: समलैंगिकता (samlaiṅgiktā) — sexual orientation
• Hungarian: homoszexualitás — sexual orientation
• Icelandic: samkynhneigð — sexual orientation
• Ido: homeosexualeso — sexual orientation
• Indonesian: homoseksualitas — sexual orientation
• Interlingua: homosexualitate — sexual orientation
• Irish: homaighnéasachas — sexual orientation
• Irish: homaighnéasacht — sexual orientation
• Italian: omosessualità — sexual orientation
• Japanese: 同性愛 (dōseiai) — sexual orientation
• Japanese: ホモセクシャリティ (homosekushariti) — sexual orientation
• Kannada: ಸಲಿಂಗ ಕಾಮ (saliṅga kāma) — sexual orientation
• Kazakh: гомосексуалдылық (gomoseksualdylyq) — sexual orientation
• Korean: 동성애 (dongseong'ae) — sexual orientation
• Central Kurdish: ھاوڕەگەزخوازی (hawrregezixwazî) — sexual orientation
• Central Kurdish: ھاوڕەگەزبازی (hawrregezbazî) — sexual orientation
• Central Kurdish: ھۆمۆسێکشواڵتی (homosêkişwalltî) — sexual orientation
• Northern Kurdish: homoseksûalîte — sexual orientation
• Northern Kurdish: hevzayendîtî — sexual orientation
• Northern Kurdish: homoseksuelî — sexual orientation
• Kyrgyz: гомосексуалдуулук (gomoseksualduuluk) — sexual orientation
• Ladino: omoseksualita — sexual orientation
• Latin: homosexualitas — sexual orientation
• Latvian: homoseksualitāte — sexual orientation
• Latvian: homoseksuālisms — sexual orientation
• Ligurian: omosessualitæ — sexual orientation
• Limburgish: homoseksualiteit — sexual orientation
• Lithuanian: homoseksualumas — sexual orientation
• Lombard: omosessüalitaa — sexual orientation
• Luxembourgish: Homosexualitéit — sexual orientation
• Macedonian: хомосексуалност (homoseksualnost) — sexual orientation
• Maithili: समलैङ्गिकता (saməlaiṅgikətā) — sexual orientation
• Malagasy: fahapelahana — sexual orientation
• Malayalam: സ്വവർഗ്ഗരതി (svavaṟggarati) — sexual orientation
• Maltese: omosesswalità — sexual orientation
• Mazanderani: همجنسگرایی (hamjensgarâ) — sexual orientation
• Mirandese: homossexualidade — sexual orientation
• Nahuatl: cuilonyōtl — sexual orientation
• Classical Nahuatl: cuilonyōtl — sexual orientation
• Neapolitan: ommosessualità — sexual orientation
• Nepali: समलैंगिकता (samlaiṅgikatā) — sexual orientation
• Newar: समलैङ्गिकता (samalaiṅgikatā) — sexual orientation
• Norman: homosexualité — sexual orientation
• Norwegian Bokmål: homoseksualitet — sexual orientation
• Norwegian Bokmål: homofili — sexual orientation
• Norwegian Nynorsk: homofili — sexual orientation
• Occitan: omosexualitat — sexual orientation
• Church Slavonic: мѫжеложьство (mǫželožĭstvo) — sexual orientation
• Persian: همجنسگرایی (ham-jens-garâyi) — sexual orientation
• Piedmontese: omossessualità — sexual orientation
• Polish: homoseksualizm — sexual orientation
• Portuguese: homossexualidade — sexual orientation
• Portuguese: homossexualismo — sexual orientation
• Punjabi: ਸਮਲਿੰਗੀ (samliṅgī) — sexual orientation
• Romanian: homosexualitate — sexual orientation
• Romanian: хомосексуалитате (homosexualitate) — sexual orientation
• Russian: гомосексуа́льность (gomosɛksuálʹnostʹ) — sexual orientation
• Russian: гомосексуали́зм (gomosɛksualízm) — sexual orientation
• Northern Sami: homoseksualitehta — sexual orientation
• Sardinian: omosessualidade — sexual orientation
• Scottish Gaelic: co-sheòrsachd — sexual orientation
• Scottish Gaelic: fearas-feise — sexual orientation
• Scottish Gaelic: banas-feise — sexual orientation
• Serbo-Croatian: хомосексуа́лно̄ст — sexual orientation
• Serbo-Croatian: homoseksuálnōst — sexual orientation
• Shona: ungochani — sexual orientation
• Sicilian: omosessualità — sexual orientation
• Sicilian: omusissualità — sexual orientation
• Silesian: buzeranctwo — sexual orientation
• Sindhi: هم جنس پرست (ham jins parasata) — sexual orientation
• Sinhalese: සමලිංගිකතාව (samaliṁgikatāwa) — sexual orientation
• Slovak: homosexualita — sexual orientation
• Slovene: homoseksualnost — sexual orientation
• Somali: khaniisnimada — sexual orientation
• Sotho: bosodoma — sexual orientation
• Spanish: homosexualidad — sexual orientation
• Spanish: homosexualismo — sexual orientation
• Swahili: ushoga — sexual orientation
• Swahili: mapenzi ya jinsia moja — sexual orientation
• Swedish: homosexualitet — sexual orientation
• Tagalog: homoseksuwalidad — sexual orientation
• Tajik: ҳамҷинсгароӣ (hamjinsgaroyi) — sexual orientation
• Tajik: гомосексуализм (gomoseksualizm) — sexual orientation
• Tamil: தன்பாலீர்ப்பு (taṉpālīrppu) — sexual orientation
• Tamil: ஒருபாலீர்ப்பு (orupālīrppu) — sexual orientation
• Tatar: гомосексуализм (ğomoseksuwalizm) — sexual orientation
• Tatar: һомосексуальлек (homoseksuwalʹlek) — sexual orientation
• Telugu: స్వలింగ సంపర్కం (svaliṅga samparkaṁ) — sexual orientation
• Thai: รักร่วมเพศ (rák-rûuam-pêet) — sexual orientation
• Turkish: eşcinsellik — sexual orientation
• Turkish: homoseksüellik — sexual orientation
• Ukrainian: гомосексуа́льність (homoseksuálʹnistʹ) — sexual orientation
• Ukrainian: гомосексуалі́зм (homoseksualízm) — sexual orientation
• Urdu: ہم جنس پرستی (hum jins parasti) — sexual orientation
• Urdu: ہمجنسیت (hamjinsiyat) — sexual orientation
• Uzbek: gomoseksuallik — sexual orientation
• Vietnamese: tính tình dục đồng giới — sexual orientation
• Vietnamese: đồng tính luyến ái — sexual orientation
• Waray-Waray: homoseksuwalidad — sexual orientation
• Welsh: cyfunrhywiaeth — sexual orientation
• Welsh: gwrywgydiaeth — sexual orientation
• West Flemish: homoseksualiteit — sexual orientation
• Yiddish: האָמאָסעקסואַלוטעט (homoseksualutet) — sexual orientation
• Yoruba: ìnífẹ̀ẹ́-ọkùnrin-sọ́kùnrin — sexual orientation
• Zazaki: hemcınsbaz — sexual orientation
• Zulu: isitabane — sexual orientation