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Homosexuality

//ˌhoʊməˌsɛkʃuˈælɪti// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex attraction between males. uncountable

    "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)."

  2. 2
    a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex wordnet
  3. 3
    Sexual activity with a person of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex sex between males. uncountable

    "Bourneville believes that 75 per cent. of the inmates of the Parisian venereal hospitals have practised homosexuality."

Etymology

From homosexual + -ity, equivalent to homo- + sexuality and after the model of German Homosexualität, coined by journalist Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1869, and French homosexualité, attested in 1891.

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