different between biromantic vs bisexual

English

Etymology

bi- +? romantic

Adjective

biromantic (comparative more biromantic, superlative most biromantic)

1. Romantically attracted to both males and females.
   • 2005, Deborah Smith, "No Sex please, I'm not into it", Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April 2005:

     Now that he's thought longer about it, Michael also likes to describe himself as "biromantic". He is keen to have a romantic relationship with either a man or a woman.

   • 2012, Anthony F. Bogaert, Understanding Asexuality, Rowman & Littlefield (2012), ?ISBN, page 15:

     So, for example, it is not unusual for an asexual person to say that he is asexual but biromantic, or that she is asexual but heteroromantic.

   • 2013, Tracey Hickey, "Asexuality should be recognized as a legitimate sexual orientation", The Pitt News (University of Pittsburgh), 14 February 2013:

     Though some people identify as aromantic, others identify as heteromantic, homoromantic, biromantic and everything in between.

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

Noun

biromantic (plural biromantics)

1. One who is romantically attracted to both males and females.
   • 2011, Mark Carrigan, "There’s more to life than sex? Difference and commonality within the asexual community", Sexualities, Volume 14, Number 4, August 2011, page 469:

     Within this group of romantic asexuals, orientation varies: heteroromantics only feel romantic attraction to the opposite sex, homoromantics to the same sex, biromantics to both sexes and panromantics without reference to sex or gender.

   • 2014, Nino Testa, "Language, identity and National Coming Out Day", The Tufts Daily (Tufts University), Volume 68, Number 21, 8 October 2014, page 9:

     For my part, I decided this year not to mention allies in the laundry list of identities represented (I also didn't mention heteroflexible biromantics), underscoring the Sisyphean task of creating an inclusive list of identities.

   • 2015, Erinn Williams, "A Different Sexuality", The George-Anne (Georgia Southern University), Volume 89, Issue 46, 10 February 2015, page 7:

     Panromantics, unlike biromantics, will tend to feel that their partner's gender does little to define their relationship.

See also

• (romantic orientations) romantic orientation; aromantic (-ism), biromantic (-ism), demiromantic (-ism), heteroromantic (-ism), homoromantic (-ism), panromantic (-ism), transromantic ^{(Category: en:Romantic orientations)}

Anagrams

• antibromic

English

Etymology

From bi- +? -sexual. 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 people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and the brain or mind of a person attracted to "both" sexes (or the same sex) must be partly of the opposite sex and thus "hermaphroditic".

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ba??s?k.sju.?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ba??s?k.?u.?l/

Adjective

bisexual (comparative more bisexual, superlative most bisexual)

1. (of humans or other animals) Sexually attracted to both men and women (by a narrow definition) or to people of multiple or any genders (by a broad definition; compare pansexual).

   Synonyms: (slang) AC/DC, (jocular) ambidextrous, (colloquial) bi, omnifutuent

2. (chiefly botany) Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
   1. (botany) Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
   2. (botany) Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
   3. (botany) Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
   4. (botany) Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
   5. (rare) Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.

      Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.

      • 2004, Lois Bragg, Oedipus Borealis: The Aberrant Body in Old Icelandic Myth and Saga (?ISBN):

        To say that Loki is bisexual means that he readily alternates between the male and female sexes, becoming female at will or as needed.

      • 2013, Zainab Bahrani, Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia (?ISBN):

        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).

      • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bisexual.
   6. Androgynous.
      • 1947, Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet, American Speech:

        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  […]

      • 1976, Frank V. Fowlkes, The Peruvian Contracts: A Novel, Putnam Publishing Group (?ISBN), page 128:

        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 […]

      • 1984, The Wallace Stevens Journal:

        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.

      • 2003, Efrat Tseëlon, Masquerade and Identities: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Marginality, Routledge (?ISBN), page 59:

        Consider the identity play of the French artist who gave herself the bisexual name of Claude Cahun (1894–1954).

      • 2005, Minnesota Law Review, volume 89, issue 6, page 1762:

        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 […] "

      • 2013, Marina Warner, Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism, Oxford University Press, USA (?ISBN), page 307:

        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.

3. (chiefly biology) Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).
   • 1914, Leonard Doncaster, The Determination of Sex, page 120:

     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.

   • 1925, University of Pennsylvania. Zoological Laboratory, Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory, page 204:

     We also know that bisexual species reproduce during a longer period than hermaphrodite species.

   • 1981, Mosaic, page 4:

     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  […]

4. (chiefly biology) Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).
   • 1908, Science Progress in the Twentieth Century: A Quarterly Journal of Scientific Work & Thought, page 41:

     […] where the parthenogenetic and bisexual generations do not differ in any character except their manner of reproduction […]

   • 1913, Kammerer's Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution of 1912, in the Congressional Serial Set, page 425:

     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.

   • 1913, Francis H. Buzzacott, Mary Isabel Wymore, Bi-sexual Man: Or, Evolution of the Sexes, Life Science Inst, page 72:

     [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: […]

   • 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   […]

Synonyms

• (botany: having male and female organs): perfect, hermaphrodite
• See also Thesaurus:bisexual

Hyponyms

• heteroflexible, homoflexible

Coordinate terms

• (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) ^{(Category: en:Sexual orientations)}

Related terms

Translations

Noun

bisexual (plural bisexuals)

1. A person who is bisexual.
   • 1984, Women and deviance, page 63:

     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.

   Synonym: (colloquial) bi

   Hypernym: LGBT

2. (botany, rare) A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.
3. (chiefly biology) An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.
   • 1999, Russian Journal of Herpetology

     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

• see also Thesaurus:bisexual

Translations

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) ^{(Category: en:Sexual orientations)}

References

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /bi.s?.?u?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /bi.se.?u?al/

Adjective

bisexual (masculine and feminine plural bisexuals)

1. bisexual

Noun

bisexual m or f (plural bisexuals)

1. bisexual

Related terms

• bisexualitat

Interlingua

Adjective

bisexual (not comparable)

1. bisexual

Noun

bisexual (plural bisexuales)

1. bisexual

Romanian

Etymology

From French bisexuel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi.se.ksu?al/

Adjective

bisexual m or n (feminine singular bisexual?, masculine plural bisexuali, feminine and neuter plural bisexuale)

1. bisexual

Declension

Noun

bisexual m (plural bisexuali, feminine equivalent bisexual?)

1. bisexual

Declension

Related terms

• bisexualitate

Spanish

Etymology

From bi- +? sexual.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bise??swal/, [bi.se???swal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

bisexual (plural bisexuales)

1. bisexual

Noun

bisexual m or f (plural bisexuales)

1. bisexual