heterosexuality

heterosexuality

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Etymology

From heterosexual +‎ -ity or hetero- +‎ sexuality.

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Noun

heterosexuality (usually uncountable, plural heterosexualities)

1. The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the opposite sex.
2. Sexual activity with a person of the opposite sex.

Antonyms

• homosexuality (which see for synonyms)

Hyponyms

• heteroflexibility

Related terms

• compulsory heterosexuality
• heterosexual
• heterosociality
• heteroeroticism
• nonheterosexuality

Translations

heterosexual orientation

Afrikaans: heteroseksualiteit Arabic: مُغَايَرَة‎ f (muḡāyara) Armenian: հետերոսեքսուալություն (heterosekʿsualutʿyun) Azerbaijani: heteroseksuallıq Catalan: heterosexualitat (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 異性戀／异性恋 (zh) (yìxìngliàn) Czech: heterosexualita (cs) f Dutch: heteroseksualiteit (nl) f Esperanto: aliseksemo Finnish: heterous (fi), heteroseksuaalisuus (fi) French: hétérosexualité (fr) f Galician: heterosexualidade (gl) f Georgian: ჰეტეროსექსუალობა (heṭeroseksualoba) German: Heterosexualität (de) f Hebrew: הטרוסקסואליות‎ (he) f (heteroseksualiot) Hindi: विषमलैंगिकता f (viṣamlaiṅgiktā) Hungarian: heteroszexualitás Ido: heterosexualeso (io) Italian: eterosessualità (it) f Kazakh: өзгежынысқа құштарлық (özgejynysqa qūştarlyq), гетеросексуалдылық (geteroseksualdylyq), гетеросексуалдық (geteroseksualdyq) Macedonian: хетеросексуа́лност f (heteroseksuálnost) Northern Sami: heteroseksualitehta Persian: دگرجنس‌گرایی‎ (fa) (degar-jens-garâyi) Polish: heteroseksualizm (pl) m Portuguese: heterossexualidade (pt) f Romanian: heterosexualitate (ro) f Russian: гетеросексуа́льность (ru) f (geteroseksuálʹnostʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хетеросексуалност f Roman: heteroseksualnost (sh) f Slovak: heterosexualita Spanish: heterosexualidad (es) f Swedish: heterosexualitet (sv) c Tajik: дигарҷинсгароӣ (tg) (digarjinsgaroyī) Tamil: எதிர்பால்சேர்க்கை (etirpālcērkkai) Thai: รักต่างเพศ (rák dàang pêt) Turkish: heteroseksüellik (tr) Yiddish: העטראָסעקסואַליטעט‎ f (hetroseksualitet)

See also

• (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexual (-ity, ace), bisexual (-ity, bi), demisexual (-ity, demi), graysexual (-ity), heterosexual (-ity, straight), homosexual (-ity, gay, lesbian), omnisexual (-ity), pansexual (-ity, pan), plurisexual (-ity), polysexual (-ity), robosexual (-ity), sapiosexual (-ity), androsexual (-ity), gynesexual (-ity), vegansexual (-ity) ^{(Category: en:Sexual orientations)}