homosexualism

Other forms of homosexualism

plural

homosexualisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about homosexualism

What does homosexualism mean?

homosexualism means "a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex".

How many syllables are in homosexualism?

homosexualism has 6 syllables: ho-mo-sex-u-a-lism. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for homosexualism?

Close synonyms include homosexuality, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is homosexualism a common word?

homosexualism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.