bisexual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From bi- + -sexual, via the French bisexuel (bi-, sexuel). Attested since 1792 as a synonym in botany for "hermaphroditic" ("having male and female parts"). First used of sexuality in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis (in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof, due to the theory that people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and so the brain or mind of a person attracted to "both" sexes (or to the same sex) must be partly of another sex and thus "hermaphroditic".
Affixes: bi-
-sexual
Inflected forms:
form: more bisexual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bisexual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bi-sexual
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bisexuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bi-sexual
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals. (Compare pansexual.)
pos: adj
examples: Skirt Club caters to bisexual or bicurious women. No men are allowed, but women with all levels of experience in same-sex sexuality, from bicurious to fully lesbian, are welcomed.
Pakistani transgender activist Hina Baloch has sparked a massive online debate after claiming in a viral video that 80% of Pakistan is gay and the remaining 20% are bisexual. Speaking in an interview with the Queer Global YouTube channel, Baloch described homosexuality in Pakistan as an open secret suppressed by religion, culture, and family honour. She argued that social pressure forces most Pakistanis to deny or conceal their true sexual orientation.
gloss: Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
pos: adj
gloss: Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
pos: adj
gloss: Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
pos: adj
gloss: Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
pos: adj
gloss: Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.
To say that Loki is bisexual means that he readily alternates between the male and female sexes, becoming female at will or as needed.
Among the arguments put forth for Ishtar's hermaphroditic or bisexual character is the practice of transvestism in religious rites associated with her (e.g. Harris 2000: 170; Groneberg 1986: 39).
gloss: Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
pos: adj
examples: The bisexual name, such as Marion and Carol (and Evelyn and Vivian in England), is frequently a source of annoyance and embarrassment to the letter writer, who, if he does not know his ambiguously named correspondent personally […]
At the desk, he completed the registration card, signing his name Jean Cable and giving a New York address. He did not know for sure that he was being pursued, but if so, he knew his pursuers would check new registrations around the city. The bisexual name would give them one more obstacle […]
And although Stevens introduces Nanzia Nunzio as a woman, the inflections of the bisexual name and the symbolism implicit in the messenger's characteristics suggest that the "contemplated spouse" is something more than a woman.
Consider the identity play of the French artist who gave herself the bisexual name of Claude Cahun (1894–1954).
On August 16, in Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, Michael McConnell alone applied for a marriage license for himself and Baker, under his new adoptive name. The "bisexual name of Pat […]"
The Bionic Woman of the television serial of the seventies, though she wears ordinary dress most of the time, has the bisexual name of Jamie Summers.
gloss: Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).
pos: adj
examples: It is probable, therefore, that hermaphroditism must be regarded as a variation from an earlier condition in which the sexes were separate, and that the hermaphrodites which occasionally appear in normally bisexual species are produced by variations occurring sporadically in the same direction.
We also know that bisexual species reproduce during a longer period than hermaphrodite species.
The second line of inquiry has to do with the ultimate fate of unisexual species. Are they doomed to more rapid extinction than bisexual species? On the assumption that unisexual populations lack genetic variation, most theoretical studies […]
gloss: Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).
pos: adj
examples: […] where the parthenogenetic and bisexual generations do not differ in any character except their manner of reproduction[…]
But it does not agree with our idea of orthodox sexual reproduction, since many generations may pass without the appearance of males. The reproductive products at such times are purely feminine—that is, eggs which develop without having been fertilized by a male cell, the spermatozoan. We may distinguish this form of reproduction from sexual reproduction, in the restricted sense, or bisexual reproduction, as unisexual or parthenogenetic reproduction.
[W]e began by noting the social advantages of bisexual reproduction, showing that bisexual beings are free and equal, and thus capable of entire community and fraternity. Thereafter, we treated the subject of bisexual reproduction more particularly: describing the ovatestis and its functions, showing how separate ovaries and testes were developed from the original ovatestes, and indicating the results of such differentiation, […]. Next, we considered asexual versus sexual reproduction: […]
Recall from earlier in this paper that H. longicornis consists of obligatory bisexual diploid races (20+XX 0; 20+X) […] and variance is obscured because of the simultaneous variables of method of reproduction (bisexuality vs. thelytoky) and […]
gloss: A person who is bisexual.
pos: noun
examples: Several chapters are devoted to the investigations of the origins and influences prevalent in the life of a bisexual with the latter portion of the book devoted to three extensive in-depth interviews with three bisexuals.
gloss: A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.
pos: noun
examples: The direct way to solve this dilemma is to study the inheritance of some specific features of genomic DNA of bisexual species by the genome of unisexual species . It seems possible to study this if the recent bisexuals resemble their ancestral […]
Synonyms: perfect
hermaphrodite
bi
AC/DC
ambisextrous
curious
flexible
Kinsey 3
open-minded
switch-hitting
versatile
Related words: anti-bisexual
bi-curious
biromantic
bisexualism
bisexualist
bisexualize
bisexualization
I'm bisexual
be bisexual
bisexual person
metrosexual
homosexual
heterosexual
Derived words: antibisexual
bi-dyke
bisexuality
bisexual lighting
bisexually
bisexual marriage
bisexualness
bisexy
BUG
bytesexual
lesbigay
lesbigaytrans
nonbisexual
pseudobisexual
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: زهرة خنثى
lang: Belarusian
word: двухпо́лы
roman: dvuxpóly
lang: Bulgarian
word: двупо́лов
roman: dvupólov
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 兩性的 /两性的
roman: liǎngxìng de
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 雙性的 /双性的
roman: shuāngxìng de
lang: Dutch
word: tweeslachtig
lang: Faroese
word: tvíkynjaður
lang: Finnish
word: kaksineuvoinen
lang: French
word: bisexué
lang: German
word: bisexuell
lang: German
word: zweigeschlechtig
lang: German
word: zweigeschlechtlich
lang: Hebrew
word: דּוּ מִינִי
roman: du miní
lang: Icelandic
word: tvíkynja
lang: Ido
word: bisexua
lang: Irish
word: déghnéasach
lang: Italian
word: bisessuale
lang: Italian
word: ermafrodita
lang: Japanese
word: 両性的な
roman: ryōseiteki na
lang: Japanese
word: 両性の
roman: ryōsei no
lang: Korean
word: 양성의
roman: yangseong-ui
lang: Korean
word: 량성의
roman: ryangseong-ui
lang: Malay
word: dwijantina
lang: Malay
word: dwiseks
lang: Malay
word: dwiseksual
lang: Malay
word: biseks
lang: Malay
word: biseksual
lang: Maltese
word: bisesswali
lang: Maltese
word: mara-raġel
lang: Polish
word: biseksualny
lang: Polish
word: dwupłciowy
lang: Portuguese
word: bissexuado
lang: Romanian
word: bisexuat
lang: Russian
word: двупо́лый
roman: dvupólyj
lang: Slovak
word: obojpohlavný
lang: Swedish
word: tvåkönad
lang: Tagalog
word: duhansariin
lang: Ukrainian
word: двостате́вий
roman: dvostatévyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: гермафроди́тний
roman: hermafrodýtnyj