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homosexuality

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13 lettersPronunciation /ˌhoʊməˌsɛkʃuˈælɪti/Part of speech nounSorted aehilmoostuxyStarts with HEnds with Y0 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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).
  • Some of the experts have gone into the question of homosexuality with great care, and advanced sundry learned and scientific theories in regard to that abnormal condition.
  • Bourneville believes that 75 per cent. of the inmates of the Parisian venereal hospitals have practised homosexuality.

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