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homosexualities

homosexualities is the plural of homosexuality.

Meaning of homosexuality

Noun

homosexuality (uncountable)

  1. The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex attraction between males.
    • Great diminution or complete absence of sexual feeling for the opposite sex, with substitution of sexual feeling and instinct for the same sex. (Homo-sexuality, or contrary sexual instinct).1892, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, translated by Charles Gilbert Chaddock, Psychopathia Sexualis, page 185
  2. Sexual activity with a person of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex sex between males.
    • Bourneville believes that 75 per cent. of the inmates of the Parisian venereal hospitals have practised homosexuality.1897, Havelock Ellis et al., Sexual Inversion, page 101

Questions about homosexualities

What is homosexualities the plural of?
Homosexualities is the plural of homosexuality.

Words near homosexualities in the dictionary

  1. homosexualises
  2. homosexualising
  3. homosexualism
  4. homosexualist
  5. homosexualists
  6. homosexualities
  7. homosexuality
  8. homosexualization
  9. homosexualizations
  10. homosexualize
  11. homosexualized

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