bisexuality

bisexuality

English

Etymology

bisexual +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bisexuality (countable and uncountable, plural bisexualities)

1. (of humans or other animals) The state of being sexually or romantically attracted to members of either sex or gender.
2. (chiefly botany) The state of being bisexual (“having both male and female parts or roles”).
   • 1926, Dorothy E. Newton, The Bisexuality of Individual Strains of Coprinus Rostrupianus
   • 1983, Entomological Society of America, Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America:

     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   […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bisexuality.

Translations

botany

Finnish: biseksuaalisuus (fi) Italian: bisessualità (it) f, ermafrodismo m Malay: kedwijantinaan Romanian: bisexualitate (ro) f Russian: двупо́лость (ru) f (dvupólostʹ) Slovak: obojpohlavnosť

psychology

Armenian: երկսեռականություն (erkseṙakanutʿyun) Azerbaijani: biseksuallıq Belarusian: бісексуа́льнасць f (bisjeksuálʹnascʹ), бісэксуа́льнасць f (biseksuálʹnascʹ) Bengali: উভকামিতা (bn) (ubhkamit‌ôa) Bulgarian: бисексуа́лност f (biseksuálnost) Catalan: bisexualitat (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 雙性戀／双性恋 (zh) (shuāngxìngliàn) Min Nan: 雙性戀／双性恋, 双性恋 (siang-sèng-loân), 兩性戀／两性恋, 两性恋 (nn̄g-sèng-loân), 兩性愛／两性爱, 两性爱 (nn̄g-sèng-ài) Dutch: biseksualiteit (nl) f Esperanto: ambaŭseksemo Finnish: biseksuaalisuus (fi) French: bisexualité (fr) f Galician: bisexualidade (gl) f Georgian: ბისექსუალობა (ka) (biseksualoba) German: Bisexualität (de) f Greek: αμφιφυλοφιλία (el) f (amfifylofilía) Greenlandic: suiaassutsinut tamanoortoq Hindi: उभयलैंगिकता f (ubhaylaiṅgiktā) Icelandic: tvíkynhneigð f Italian: bisessualità (it) f Japanese: 両性愛 (りょうせいあい, ryōseiai) Kazakh: бисексуалдық (biseksualdyq), бисексуалдылық (biseksualdylyq) Korean: 양성애(兩性愛) (ko) (yangseong'ae) Norman: bisexualité f Northern Sami: biseksualitehta Norwegian: bisexualitet m Persian: دوجنس‌گرایی‎ (fa) (do-jens-garâyi) Polish: biseksualizm (pl) m Portuguese: bissexualidade (pt) f Romanian: bisexualitate (ro) f Russian: бисексуа́льность (ru) f (bisɛksuálʹnostʹ) Scottish Gaelic: dà-ghnèitheachd Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бисексуалност f Roman: biseksualnost (sh) f Slovak: bisexualita Spanish: bisexualidad (es) f Swedish: bisexualitet (sv) c Tajik: дуҷинсгароӣ (dujinsgaroyī) Tamil: இருபால்சேர்க்கை (irupālcērkkai) Turkish: biseksüellik (tr) Ukrainian: бісексуа́льність (uk) f (biseksuálʹnistʹ) Vietnamese: song tính luyến ái (雙性戀愛) Welsh: deurywioldeb

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)}