different between homosexuality vs sapphism

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

Sappho (“a poet of the isle of Lesbos (612 B.C.E. - 570 B.C.E.”) +? -ism

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?sæf.?zm?/

Noun

sapphism (usually uncountable, plural sapphisms)

1. lesbianism; female homosexuality

Synonyms

• lesbianism

Derived terms

• sapphist

Translations