bisexuality

English

Etymology

From bisexual +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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.

Coordinate terms

sexual orientationsedit

• androsexuality
• asexuality
• bisexuality
• demisexuality
• graysexuality
• gynesexuality
• heterosexuality
• homosexuality
• omnisexuality
• pansexuality
• polysexuality
• sapiosexuality

Translations

botany

• Finnish: biseksuaalisuus (fi)
• Italian: bisessualità (it) f, ermafrodismo m
• Malay: kedwijantinaan
• Romanian: bisexualitate (ro) f
• Russian: двупо́лость (ru) f (dvupólostʹ)
• Slovak: obojpohlavnosť
• Swedish: bisexualitet (sv) c

psychology

• Armenian: երկսեռականություն (erkseṙakanutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: biseksuallıq
• Belarusian: бісексуа́льнасць f (bisjeksuálʹnascʹ), бісэксуа́льнасць f (biseksuálʹnascʹ)
• Bengali: উভকামিতা (bn) (ubhkamita)
• Bulgarian: бисексуа́лност f (biseksuálnost)
• Catalan: bisexualitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 雙性戀 / 双性恋 (siang-sèng-loân), 兩性戀 / 两性恋 (nn̄g-sèng-loân), 兩性愛 / 两性爱 (nn̄g-sèng-ài)

  Mandarin: 雙性戀 / 双性恋 (zh) (shuāngxìngliàn)

• Dutch: biseksualiteit (nl) f
• Esperanto: ambaŭseksemo
• Finnish: biseksuaalisuus (fi)
• French: bisexualité (fr) f
• Galician: bisexualidade (gl) f
• Georgian: ბისექსუალობა (ka) (biseksualoba)
• German: Bisexualität (de) f
• Greek: αμφιφυλοφιλία (el) f (amfifylofilía)
• Greenlandic: suiaassutsinut tamanoortoq
• Hindi: उभयलैंगिकता f (ubhaylaiṅgiktā)
• Hungarian: biszexualitás (hu)
• Icelandic: tvíkynhneigð f
• Italian: bisessualità (it) f
• Japanese: 両性愛 (ja) (りょうせいあい, ryōseiai)
• Kazakh: бисексуалдық (biseksualdyq), бисексуалдылық (biseksualdylyq)
• Korean: 양성애(兩性愛) (ko) (yangseong'ae)
• Norman: bisexualité f
• Northern Sami: biseksualitehta
• Norwegian: bisexualitet m
• Persian: دوجنس‌گرایی (fa) (do-jens-garâyi)
• Polish: biseksualizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: bissexualidade (pt) f
• Romanian: bisexualitate (ro) f
• Russian: бисексуа́льность (ru) f (bisɛksuálʹnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-ghnèitheachd
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бисексуалност f

  Roman: biseksualnost (sh) f

• Slovak: bisexualita
• Spanish: bisexualidad (es) f
• Swedish: bisexualitet (sv) c
• Tajik: дуҷинсгароӣ (dujinsgaroi)
• Tamil: இருபாலீர்ப்பு (irupālīrppu), இருபால்சேர்க்கை (irupālcērkkai)
• Turkish: biseksüellik (tr)
• Ukrainian: бісексуа́льність (uk) f (biseksuálʹnistʹ)
• Vietnamese: song tính luyến ái (雙性戀愛)
• Welsh: deurywioldeb