bisexuality

From bisexual +‎ -ity.

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bisexuality (countable and uncountable, plural bisexualities)

1. (of humans or other animals) The state of being sexually or romantically attracted to members of either sex or gender.
2. (chiefly botany) The state of being bisexual (“having both male and female parts or roles”).
   • 1926, Dorothy E. Newton, The Bisexuality of Individual Strains of Coprinus Rostrupianus:
   • 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   […]

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

• (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), vegansexual (-ity) ^{(Category: en:Sexual orientations)}