sexual orientation

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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.

Synonyms

• sexuality
• sexual preference

Related terms

• romantic orientation

Translations

sexual orientation

• Afrikaans: seksuele oriëntasie
• Albanian: orientim seksual m
• Arabic: تَوَجُّه جِنْسِيّ m (tawajjuh jinsiyy)
• Armenian: սեռական կողմնորոշում (seṙakan koġmnorošum)
• Asturian: orientación sexual f
• Aymara: sarnaqaña uñtapa
• Azerbaijani: seksual orientasiya, cinsi yönümlülük, cinsi orientasiya
• Basque: sexu-joera, orientazio sexual
• Belarusian: сексуа́льная арыента́цыя f (sjeksuálʹnaja aryjentácyja)
• Bengali: যৌন অভিমুখীতা (bn) (jōun obhimukhita)
• Breton: tuadur reizhel m
• Bulgarian: сексуа́лна ориента́ция f (seksuálna orientácija)
• Catalan: orientació sexual f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性傾向／性倾向 (zh) (xìngqīngxiàng), 性取向 (zh) (xìngqǔxiàng), 性指向 (zh) (xìngzhǐxiàng), 性位向 (zh) (xìngwèixiàng), 性向 (zh) (xìngxiàng)

• Czech: sexuální orientace f
• Danish: seksuel orientering c
• Dutch: seksuele geaardheid f, seksuele oriëntatie f, seksuele gerichtheid f, geaardheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: seksa orientiĝo
• Estonian: seksuaalne orientatsioon, seksuaalne suundumus
• Finnish: seksuaalinen suuntautuminen (fi)
• French: orientation sexuelle (fr) f
• Galician: orientación sexual (gl) f
• Georgian: სექსუალური ორიენტაცია (seksualuri orienṭacia)
• German: sexuelle Orientierung (de) f, sexuelle Ausrichtung (de) f, sexuelle Neigung f
• Greek: σεξουαλικός προσανατολισμός m (sexoualikós prosanatolismós)
• Hebrew: נטייה מינית f (netiya minit)
• Hindi: यौन अभिविन्यास (yaun abhivinyās)
• Hungarian: szexuális irányultság (hu)
• Icelandic: kynhneigð (is) f
• Ido: sexuala orientalizo
• Indonesian: orientasi seksual
• Irish: claonadh gnéasach m
• Italian: orientamento sessuale m
• Japanese: 性的指向 (ja) (せいてきしこう, seitekishikō), 性指向 (ja) (せいしこう, seishikō), セクシュアルオリエンテーション (ja) (sekushuaru orientēshon)
• Kazakh: сексуалды бағыттану (seksualdy bağyttanu)
• Korean: 성적 지향 (seongjeok jihyang)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: berpêbûniya zayendî

• Latin: propensio sexualis f
• Latvian: seksuālā orientācija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: seksualinė orientacija f, lytinė orientacija f
• Macedonian: сексуа́лна ориента́ција f (seksuálna orientácija)
• Malay: orientasi seksual
• Malayalam: ലൈംഗികചായ്‌വ് (laiṅgikacāy‌vŭ)
• Maltese: orjentazzjoni sesswali f
• Maori: aronga hōkaka, aronga taera, taeratanga, hōkakatanga
• Marathi: लैंगिक कल (laiṅgik kal)
• Mongolian: бэлгийн баримжаа (belgiin barimžaa)
• Nepali: यौन अभिमुखिकरण (ne) (yaun abhimukhikaraṇ)
• Norman: orientâtion sexuelle f
• Norwegian: seksuell leggning

  Bokmål: seksuell orientering m or f

  Nynorsk: seksuell orientering f

• Persian: گرایش جنسی (garâyeš-e jensi)
• Polish: orientacja seksualna (pl) f
• Portuguese: orientação sexual (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਲਿੰਗਕ ਅਨੁਸਥਾਪਨ (liṅgak anusthāpan)
• Romanian: orientare sexuală f
• Russian: сексуа́льная ориента́ция (ru) f (sɛksuálʹnaja orijentácija)
• Sardinian: orientamentu sessuale
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сексуална оријентација f

  Roman: seksualna orijentacija f

• Shuar: pampatai nekámuri
• Slovak: sexuálna orientácia f
• Slovene: spolna usmerjenost f, spolna orientacija f
• Spanish: orientación sexual (es) f
• Swedish: sexuell läggning (sv) c
• Tagalog: oryentasyong seksuwal
• Tajik: гироиши ҷинсӣ (giroyiši jinsī), гароиши ҷинсӣ (garoyiši jinsī)
• Tamil: பாலியல் நாட்டம் (pāliyal nāṭṭam)
• Thai: รสนิยมทางเพศ (rs̄niym thāng pheṣ̄)
• Turkish: cinsel yönelim (tr), cinsel tercih (tr)
• Ukrainian: сексуа́льна орієнта́ція (uk) f (seksuálʹna orijentácija)
• Urdu: جنسی کشش
• Uzbek: jinsiy moyillik
• Vietnamese: thiên hướng tình dục
• Welsh: cyfeiriadedd rhywiol, rhywioledd (cy), rhywioldeb (cy) m
• West Frisian: seksuële oriïntaasje
• Yiddish: סעקסואַלער אָריענטאַציע (seksualer oryentatsye)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• (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)}