sexual orientation

Coined by New Zealand American psychologist, sexologist, and college professor John Money.

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sexual orientation (countable and uncountable, plural sexual orientations)

1. One's tendencies of sexual attraction, considered as a whole.

   There are more sexual orientations than simple homosexuality and heterosexuality.

• sexuality
• sexual preference

• romantic orientation

• (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)}