biphilia
biphilia noun: bisexuality.
Noun
biphilia (uncountable)
- Bisexuality.
- […] from the outset it does not exhibit Gentlemen Prefer Blondes biphilia', of which, as Doty notes, "It's never a matter of the woman choosing either men or each other, but of having both women and men available to them."2012 December 17, Timothy Shary, Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 186
- Philia is the propensity to fall in love romantically with members of a particular sex or gender (or both, as in the case of biphilia). The three affectional orientations include opposite-sex, same-sex, and bidirectional.2015 January 1, Ada L. Sinacore, Freda Ginsberg, Canadian Counselling and Counselling Psychology in the 21st Century, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 114
Origin of biphilia
From bi- + -philia.
Words formed from biphilia
- biphile
- biphilic
Questions about biphilia
- What does biphilia mean?
- Biphilia means bisexuality.
- What part of speech is biphilia?
- Biphilia is a noun.
Words near biphilia in the dictionary
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