Straighthood

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or condition of being straight (morally, sexually, etc.) uncountable

    "Being with Paul was an interim solution. In effect, he and I seceded from straighthood together. Our relationship turned on a new kind of bisexual plot, its tension imparted by the lively possibility that one of us might leave the other for a gender."

Example

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"Being with Paul was an interim solution. In effect, he and I seceded from straighthood together. Our relationship turned on a new kind of bisexual plot, its tension imparted by the lively possibility that one of us might leave the other for a gender."

Etymology

From straight + -hood.

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