homosexual

Meanings

Adjective

• Sexually (and/or romantically) attracted to members of the same sex, for example, like a man who is attracted to men or a woman who is attracted to women.
• Between two people of the same sex; gay.
• Intended for or used by homosexuals, as a nightclub, a bar, etc.

Noun

• A person who is sexually attracted solely or primarily to others of the same sex.

Related

Similar words

• gay, lesbian
• same-sex
• This section is divided into two tables, one containing synonyms that generally are not derogatory and one containing those that generally are. However, note that the non-derogatory terms can nonetheless be used derogatorily, and that some of the derogatory ones are often used humorously and non-derogatorily by gay people and others.
• gay
• invert
• queer
• same-sexer
• company man
• Uranian
• lesbian
• sapphist
• bugger
• fruit
• homo
• moffie
• fag
• faggot
• pole-smoker
• fairy
• flamer
• nance, nancy, nancy boy
• pansy
• poofter
• queen
• pederast
• sodomite
• swish
• light in the loafers
• lesbo
• dyke
• muff-diver
• carpet muncher
• scissor sister

Narrower meaning words

• heteroflexible
• homoflexible

Origin

• Borrowed from German Homosexual, from homo- + sexual, coined by Karl-Maria Kertbeny in 1869, and popularized in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis (in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof (compare bisexual), displacing the slightly older term Uranian. Equivalent to homo- + -sexual.