HOMOSEXUALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homosexuality mean? 

• HOMOSEXUALITY (noun)
  The noun HOMOSEXUALITY has 1 sense:

1. a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex

  Familiarity information: HOMOSEXUALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMOSEXUALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gayness; homoeroticism; homosexualism; homosexuality; queerness

Hypernyms ("homosexuality" is a kind of...):

sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "homosexuality"):

inversion; sexual inversion (a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex)

lesbianism; sapphism (female homosexuality)

paederasty; pederasty (sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner))

Derivation:

homosexual (sexually attracted to members of your own sex)