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pseudoheterosexuality

pseudoheterosexuality noun: behaviour which appears to be heterosexual but is really homosexual.

Noun

pseudoheterosexuality (uncountable)

  1. Behaviour which appears to be heterosexual but is really homosexual.
    • Homosexuality is one of the possible consequences of failing to work out these negative oedipal feelings. Another is pseudoheterosexuality. A man, for instance, might choose a wife (and she needn't look or act "masculine") because she has certain qualities which make her, for him, a stand-in for a...1986, Judith Viorst, Necessary Losses, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 111

Origin of pseudoheterosexuality

From pseudo- + heterosexuality.

Questions about pseudoheterosexuality

What does pseudoheterosexuality mean?
Pseudoheterosexuality means behaviour which appears to be heterosexual but is really homosexual.
What part of speech is pseudoheterosexuality?
Pseudoheterosexuality is a noun.

Words near pseudoheterosexuality in the dictionary

  1. pseudohernia
  2. pseudohernias
  3. pseudoherniation
  4. pseudoheroic
  5. pseudoheterosexual
  6. pseudoheterosexuality
  7. pseudoheterosite
  8. pseudoheterozygous
  9. pseudohexagon
  10. pseudohexagonal
  11. pseudohexagonally

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