uranic

Adjective

uranic (not comparable)

1. Containing uranium in higher valences than uranous compounds.
2. (historical) Heavenly, celestial; astronomical.
3. (historical, rare) Of, related to, or characteristic of male same-sex erotic desire and relationships; homosexual.
   • From many other places in the classics the impression may be won that Uranic love attained a higher position even than her sister. More recent explanations of the homosexual instinct have emanated from philosophers, psychologists and natural scientists.1894, Richard Krafft-Ebing (trans F. J. Rebman), Psychopathia Sexualis, page 341
   • The patriotic assassination that so glorified Harmodios and Aristogeiton was in a vengeance for what was a homosexual marriage, we may say, between the two youths—whose uranic love was so virilized.1908, Edward Prime-Stevenson, The Intersexes A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, page 189

   Synonyms:

   Uranian, uranistic, homophile, homosexual, like that, queer, similisexual, that way