different between pederasty vs homosexuality

English

Alternative forms

• paederasty (British)
• pæderasty (British, dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????????? (paiderastía, “love of boys”), from ??????????? (paiderast?s, “pederast”), from ???? (paîs, “child, son, boy”) + ??????? (erast?s, “lover”), from ?????? (éramai, “to l?ve”).

Pronunciation

• (UK): IPA^(key): /?p?d.?.??s.ti/
• (US): IPA^(key): /?p?d.?.?æs.ti/, /?pi.d?.?æs.ti/

Noun

pederasty (usually uncountable, plural pederasties)

1. Erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy.

   Antonym: (erotic love between a woman and a girl) korephilia

2. (archaic) Anal intercourse in general, usually between a man and an adolescent boy.

Usage notes

• Originally referred to formal practices mandated by Greek customs and laws. Often used in a modern sense for either lawful or transgressive inter-generational love relationships.
• Often used colloquially to describe sexual abuse that is perpetrated by adults on pre-pubescent boys (see pedophilia).

Synonyms

• boylove (euphemistic)

Related terms

• pederast
• pederastic
• pedophile

Translations

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