different between homosexuality vs homosociality

English

Etymology

From homosexual +? -ity or homo- +? sexuality

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æl?ti

Noun

homosexuality (usually uncountable, plural homosexualities)

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

Usage notes

Homosexuality in women is also known as lesbianism. As homosexuality applies to people of either sex, the expression homosexuality and lesbianism is redundant and is best replaced by homosexuality or lesbianism alone as appropriate. Different cultural constructions of same-sex love are collectively referred to as homosexualities.

Synonyms

• gayness
• homosexualism
• lesbianism (applied only to women)
• uranism (obsolete)
• urningism (obsolete)

Antonyms

• heterosexuality
• straightness (slang)

Hypernyms

• queerness

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

• homosexual
• homoromanticism
• homoflexibility

Translations

See also

• LGBT, GLBT
• gay
• lesbian

English

Etymology

homo- +? sociality

Noun

homosociality (countable and uncountable, plural homosocialities)

1. Socialization (social interaction, social relationships) with members of the same sex, as distinguished from sexual interaction with or attraction to members of the same sex (homosexuality) and social interaction with members of the opposite sex (heterosociality).
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:homosociality.

Antonyms

• heterosociality

Related terms

• homosocial

See also

• homoromanticism

Translations