homohysteric

English

Etymology

From homo- (“pertaining to homosexuality”) +‎ hysteric.

Adjective

homohysteric (comparative more homohysteric, superlative most homohysteric)

1. Pertaining to or involving homohysteria ("A cultural aversion to being perceived as homosexual").
   • 2009, Eric Anderson, Inclusive Masculinity: The Changing Nature of Masculinities, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 151:

     It seems that whereas men's publicly perceived sexual identities were once easily jeopardized in a homohysteric culture, today men maintain more freedom to explore certain forms of same-sex sexual behaviors without threat to their publicly perceived heterosexual identities.