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Sapphism

//ˈsæ.fɪzm̩// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Lesbianism; female homosexuality. uncountable, usually

    "Its odd that yᵉ Roman Women did not borrow that horrible Vice from Greece—it has a Greek name now & is called Sapphism, but I never did hear of it in Italy where the Ladies are today exactly what Juvenal described them in his Time—neither better nor worse as I can find."

  2. 2
    female homosexuality wordnet

Etymology

From Sappho (“a poet of the isle of Lesbos (612 B.C.E. - 570 B.C.E.)”) + -ism.

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