heterosexuality

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Etymology

From heterosexual +‎ -ity or hetero- +‎ sexuality.

Pronunciation

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Noun

heterosexuality (usually uncountable, plural heterosexualities)

1. The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the opposite sex.
2. Sexual activity with a person of the opposite sex.

Antonyms

• homosexuality (which see for synonyms)

Hyponyms

• heteroflexibility

Coordinate terms

sexual orientationsedit

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

Derived terms

• antiheterosexuality
• compulsory heterosexuality
• pseudoheterosexuality

Related terms

• heterosexual
• heterosociality
• heteroeroticism
• nonheterosexuality
• heterogenitality

Translations

heterosexual orientation

• Afrikaans: heteroseksualiteit
• Arabic: مُغَايَرَة f (muḡāyara), هيتيروسكسوالية f (hītīrūsiksuwāliyya)
• Armenian: հետերոսեքսուալություն (heterosekʻsualutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: heteroseksuallıq
• Catalan: heterosexualitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 異性戀 / 异性恋 (zh) (yìxìngliàn)

• Czech: heterosexualita (cs) f
• Dutch: heteroseksualiteit (nl) f
• Esperanto: aliseksemo
• Finnish: heterous (fi), heteroseksuaalisuus (fi)
• French: hétérosexualité (fr) f
• Galician: heterosexualidade (gl) f
• Georgian: ჰეტეროსექსუალობა (heṭeroseksualoba)
• German: Heterosexualität (de) f
• Hebrew: הטרוסקסואליות (he) f (heteroseksualiot)
• Hindi: विषमलैंगिकता f (viṣamlaiṅgiktā)
• Hungarian: heteroszexualitás (hu)
• Ido: heterosexualeso (io)
• Italian: eterosessualità (it) f
• Kazakh: өзгежынысқа құштарлық (özgejynysqa qūştarlyq), гетеросексуалдылық (geteroseksualdylyq), гетеросексуалдық (geteroseksualdyq)
• Macedonian: хетеросексуа́лност f (heteroseksuálnost)
• Northern Sami: heteroseksualitehta
• Occitan: eterosexualitat (oc) f, heterosexualitat f
• Persian: دگرجنس‌گرایی (fa) (degar-jens-garâyi)
• Polish: heteroseksualizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: heterossexualidade (pt) f
• Romanian: heterosexualitate (ro) f
• Russian: гетеросексуа́льность (ru) f (geteroseksuálʹnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хетеросексуалност f

  Roman: heteroseksualnost (sh) f

• Slovak: heterosexualita
• Spanish: heterosexualidad (es) f
• Swedish: heterosexualitet (sv) c
• Tajik: дигарҷинсгароӣ (tg) (digarjinsgaroi)
• Tamil: எதிர்பாலீர்ப்பு (etirpālīrppu), எதிர்பால்சேர்க்கை (etirpālcērkkai)
• Thai: รักต่างเพศ (rák dàang pêt)
• Turkish: heteroseksüellik (tr)
• Yiddish: העטראָסעקסואַליטעט f (hetroseksualitet)