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pseudohomosexual

pseudohomosexual adjective: according to Lionel Ovesey: having become a (male) homosexual as a result of abnormal interpersonal relationships, rather than having an innate homosexual orientation.

Adjective

pseudohomosexual (not comparable)

  1. According to Lionel Ovesey: having become a (male) homosexual as a result of abnormal interpersonal relationships, rather than having an innate homosexual orientation.

Noun

pseudohomosexual (plural pseudohomosexuals)

  1. A pseudohomosexual man.

Forms of pseudohomosexual

pluralpseudohomosexuals

Origin of pseudohomosexual

From pseudo- + homosexual.

Questions about pseudohomosexual

What does pseudohomosexual mean?
Pseudohomosexual means according to Lionel Ovesey: having become a (male) homosexual as a result of abnormal interpersonal relationships, rather than having an innate homosexual orientation.
What part of speech is pseudohomosexual?
Pseudohomosexual can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near pseudohomosexual in the dictionary

  1. pseudohomologue
  2. pseudohomologues
  3. pseudohomophone
  4. pseudohomophones
  5. pseudohomophony
  6. pseudohomosexual
  7. pseudohomosexuality
  8. pseudohomosexuals
  9. pseudohomothallic
  10. pseudohomothallism
  11. pseudohomozygous

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