homosexuality

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)sɛkʃʊˈælɪti/|/ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˌsɛksjʊˈælɪti/|/ˌhɒmə(ʊ)-/    美 /ˌhoʊməˌsɛkʃuˈælɪti/|/ˌhoʊmoʊˌsɛkʃuˈælɪti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being sexually and romantically 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. 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.

词汇关系

近义词
gayness homosexualism urningism uranism SSAD inversionism
反义词
heterosexuality straightness
上位词
queerness
下位词
lesbianism
衍生词
antihomosexuality pseudohomosexuality
相关词
homosexual homoromanticism homoflexibility homogenitality LGBT GLBT gay lesbian

词源

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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