Synonyms for homosexuality
All synonyms
Noun
1. Gayness
gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homogenitality, queerness vulgar, uranism dated
Other
sodomy, homosexualness, urningism dated, inversionism dated
Definitions
- n. 1
The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex attraction between males.
Related words
- Word family
- homosexual homogenitality
- Is a kind of
- queerness
Forms
- Plural
- homosexualities → gaynesses, homoeroticisms, queernesses, uranisms…
Example sentences
- gayness I told Tom to tone down his gayness.
- sodomy Buggery and sodomy are synonyms for anal intercourse.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| homosexuality | rising | |
| gayness | rising | |
| homoeroticism | rising | |
| homosexualism | falling | |
| sodomy | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- sodomy3
- 7 letters
- gayness2, uranism
- 9 letters
- queerness, urningism
- 12 letters
- inversionism
- 13 letters
- homoeroticism, homosexualism
- 14 letters
- homogenitality, homosexualness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sodomy3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- homosexualité
- Italiano
- omosessualità
- Deutsch
- Homosexualität