homosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɒməʊˈsɛksjuːəl/
ipa: /ˌhɒməʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/
ipa: /ˌhəʊməʊˈsɛksjuːəl/
ipa: /ˌhəʊməʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/
enpr: hō'mə-sĕkʹsho͞o-əl
enpr: hō'mō-sĕkʹsho͞o-əl
ipa: /ˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃuːəl/
ipa: /ˌhoʊmoʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: more homosexual
form: most homosexual
Etymology: Borrowed from German homosexual, from homo- (“same”) + sexual (“relating to sex or sexuality”), coined by Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1868, and popularized in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (2nd ed. 1887, in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof (compare bisexual), displacing the slightly older term Uranian. Equivalent to homo- + -sexual.
Senses: examples: text: No, it wouldn't make a difference if the applicant was homosexual.
text: [H]e said he had never noticed anything homosexual in himself.
ref: 1892 [1889], Charles Gilbert Chaddock, transl., Psychopathia Sexualis, Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, translation of Psychopathia Sexualis by R. von Krafft-Ebing, page 97:
text: "Significant results indicate that Swedes would choose a more masculine partner the more homosexual they are, and that Finns would choose a more attractive partner the more homosexual they are."
ref: 1983, Michael W. Ross, Homosexuality and Social Sex Roles:
qualifier: distancing or dated
glosses: Sexually and/or romantically attracted to members of the same sex, such as a man who is attracted to men or a woman who is attracted to women; gay. (Typically used in the sense of sole/exclusive attraction.)
raw_tags: of a person or other animal
examples: text: Most western countries have repealed laws against homosexual activity between consenting adults.
text: Shatner: Have you ever had a homosexual experience?
Maher: No. Why, are you...? But it's early!
ref: 2022 March 20, Bill Maher, William Shatner, 56:37 from the start, in William Shatner, Club Random With Bill Maher, episode 1, Club Random Podcast, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2022:
qualifier: distancing or dated
glosses: Between two people of the same sex; gay.
raw_tags: of a romantic or sexual act or relationship
examples: text: A petition drive to close all homosexual establishments in response to an assumed general AIDS contagion was begun in late October, according to The Weekly News of Miami.
ref: 1983 December 24, “Effort To Close Gay Businesses Underway”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 2:
glosses: Intended for or used by homosexuals, as a nightclub, a bar, etc.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: gay
sense: all senses
english: used only of women
translation: used only of women
word: lesbian
sense: between people of the same sex
word: same-sex
word: homophile
word: homosexual
word: like that
word: queer
word: similisexual
word: that way
Hyponyms: word: heteroflexible
word: homoflexible
word: bent
word: gay
word: faggy
word: light in the loafers
word: poncy
word: sodomitical
word: Uranian
word: uranistic
word: butch
word: lesbian
word: mannish
word: Sapphic
Coordinate terms: sense: of humans
word: homoromantic
Derived terms: antihomosexual
fauxmosexual
globohomo
Homintern
homo
homocapitalism
Homocaust
homocon
Homocrat
homocrat
homosexless
homosexualisation
homosexualise
homosexualism
homosexualist
homosexuality
homosexualization
homosexualize
homosexually
homosexual marriage
homosexualness
homosexual panic defense
homosexual transsexual
I'm homosexual
nonhomosexual
pseudohomosexual
queerosexual
sinthomosexual
Related terms: word: dykey
word: same-sex
word: gay man
word: gay woman
word: happy
word: homosexual person