homosexualadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊ(ə)l/,

/ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)l/,

/ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛksjʊ(ə)l/,

/ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊ(ə)l/,

/ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)l/,

/ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛksjʊ(ə)l/, U.S.

/ˌhoʊmoʊˈsɛkʃ(əw)əl/,

/ˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃ(əw)əl/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: homo- comb. form, sexual adj.

Etymology: < homo- comb. form + sexual adj., originally after German homosexual, now rare (K. M. Kertbeny 1869, also as noun: see note). Compare French homosexuel (1891, apparently after German), and German homosexuell, now the usual form (1878; 1898 also as noun).The German adjective homosexual , along with its noun use and several derivatives, was apparently first printed in Das Gemeinschädliche des § 143 des preussischen Strafgesetzbuches (1869) 30, 54, and passim (by K. M. Kertbeny, originally published anonymously), which challenges a law against homosexuality; the term is contrasted in this text with †normalsexual heterosexual, lit. ‘normally sexual’. Kertbeny also already used homosexual in a letter dated 6 May 1868, alongside heterosexual heterosexual adj. In German, both these terms have now been superseded by their equivalents in -sexuell , apparently after sexuell sexual adj. Kertbeny's terminology was adopted by G. Jäger, whose work in turn informed R. von Krafft-Ebing's Pyschopathia Sexualis, which was known to J. A. Symonds (compare quot. 1891 at sense A. 1a), and which was also translated into English (from the 7th revised edition of 1892; compare e.g. quot. 1892). Later uses with specific reference to male homosexuality are probably influenced by folk-etymological association of the first element with classical Latin homo human being, person, in post-classical Latin also ‘adult male human being’ (see homo n.¹ and compare the discussion at man n.¹).

Chiefly Psychology and Psychoanalysis in early use.

A. adj.

a. Characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to, or sexual activity with, people of the same sex; involving or relating to same-sex desire or sexual activity.Both as an adjective and a noun, homosexual was for much of the first half of the 20th cent. the most widely accepted term used to refer to same-sex desire and activity, and to same-sex oriented individuals, especially men. While the term is still used in many formal contexts, from the 1960s onwards gay became preferred by many same-sex oriented men, who regarded homosexual as too formal and clinical, or as being associated with a history of the treatment of homosexuality as a medical or psychiatric condition and the criminalization of sex between men in many jurisdictions. When referring to same-sex desire and relations between women, the term lesbian is often preferred.

ΚΠ

1891 J. A. Symonds Probl. in Mod. Ethics viii. 60 The author [sc. Richard Burton] endeavoured to..frame a general theory regarding the origin and prevalence of homosexual passions.

1892 C. G. Chaddock tr. R. von Krafft-Ebing Psychopathia Sexualis iii. 255 He had been free from homo-sexual inclinations [Ger. homosexualen Anwandlungen].

1930 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 20 Apr. 9/4 Michel proceeds from a heterosexual liaison to a homosexual one.

1965 E. Rosen & I. Gregory Abnormal Psychol. xviii. 381 Homosexual behavior in human females, also known as lesbianism or sapphism,..is less likely to arouse social censure than male homosexuality.

1985 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Dec. 1746 Our advice is urgently needed by the gay community on the hazards of homosexual sex.

2012 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 28 July e12 For the past 27 years, she had been in a homosexual relationship.

b. Sexually or romantically attracted to, or engaging in sexual activity with, people of one's own sex.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [adjective] > homosexual

inverted1870

Uranian1883

homosexual1892

homogenic1894

camp1910

homosex1913

queer1914

homoerotic1915

homosexualist1920

homo1923

faggoty1928

tapette1930

fag1932

gay1934

so1937

same-sex1938

faggy1949

ginger beer1959

that waya1960

that way inclineda1960

ginger1965

minty1965

pink1972

leather1990

1892 C. G. Chaddock tr. R. von Krafft-Ebing Psychopathia Sexualis iii. 256 The homo-sexual woman [Ger. das weibliebende Weib] offers the same manifestations, mutatis mutandis.

1907 Scotsman 30 Oct. 9/5 The Court had come to the conclusion that the plaintiff was actually homo-sexual.

1937 W. S. Maugham Theatre xxiv. 238 If he had been homosexual she would surely have had some hint of it; after all, in society since the war they talked of practically nothing else.

1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex iii. 24 Not all effeminate men are homosexual, and few homosexual men can be really described as effeminate.

1993 Feminist Stud. 19 366 ‘Gay’..was in use as a slang term among some homosexual men and lesbians as early as the 1920s and quite commonly in the 1940s.

2012 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 23 July b3/2 People who are homosexual never woke up one day and decided to become homosexual.

c. Of, relating to, or associated with homosexual people; welcoming to, popular with, or catering for homosexual people.

ΚΠ

1894 G. Ives Diary 15 Nov. in E. Ellman Oscar Wilde (1988) xv. 364 If Bosie has really made Oxford homosexual..he has done something good and glorious.

1906 J. R. Parke Human Sexuality 309 In American homosexual argot, female inverts.., are known euphemistically as ‘bulldykers’.

1914 G. B. Shaw in New Statesman 14 Nov. 21/2 The forty tolerated homosexual brothels of Berlin.

1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential ii. xii. 131 Portland has a considerable homosexual population. Many aren't mincing effeminates, either.

1983 N.Y. Times 17 June b4/2 In San Francisco..the public health authorities have now posted warning signs about AIDS in homosexual bars and bathhouses.

1992 L. Garnets et al. in G. M. Herek & K. T. Berrill Hate Crimes iv. xiii. 217 Among the basic assumptions to be avoided are that a homosexual identity or life-style is negative and unhealthy.

2009 Times 15 Oct. 29/3 The British Armed Forces..now actively encourage recruitment from the homosexual community by taking part in gay pride events.

2. Designating sexual activity between animals of the same sex; of or relating to such activity; (of an animal) that engages in such activity.

ΚΠ

1897 H. Ellis & J. A. Symonds Sexual Inversion i. 2 Among animals in a domesticated or confined state it is easy to find evidence of homosexual attraction, due merely to the absence of the other sex.

1937 Trans. Linn. Soc. N.Y. 4 195 Homosexual pairs rarely occur where there is much difference in the plumage of the sexes; apparently a male in full breeding plumage..cannot take the submissive role.

1972 Auk 89 721 For an understanding of the displays of the homosexual cocks the homologous performance of the male Ostrich in the normal heterosexual courtship is briefly described.

2000 G. Haggerty Gay Hist. & Cultures 55/2 It is probably incorrect to speak of homosexual animals or animal homosexuality, because virtually nothing is known about the cognitive aspects of sexuality in nonhuman species.

2017 Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 27 Jan. Homosexual behaviour has been observed in 1500 different species, from killer whales to crabs to lions.

B. n.

A person who is sexually or romantically attracted to members of his or her own sex.In later use more often applied to men than to women, for whom the term lesbian is more common. See also note at sense A. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person

urning1883

invert1892

homosexual1894

Uranist1895

homosexualist1898

Uranian1908

intersexualc1910

homoerotic1915

homo1923

one of those1927

freak1941

homophile1945

gay1953

consenting adult1957

minty1957

lesbigays1992

1894 E. Carpenter Homogenic Love 19 With regard to the number of these quite exclusive homosexuals (supposably born so) estimates vary, from one man in every 50 to one in every 500.

1934 China Press (Shanghai) 3 Mar. 16/3 It should..have been no surprise to the department that when homosexuals are committed to a prison they remain homosexuals.

1954 W. Mayer-Gross et al. Clin. Psychiatry iv. 179 Male homosexuals are frequently classified into the active and the passive type; female homosexuals into the masculine and feminine.

1974 D. Clement & I. La Frenais Porridge: Scripts (2002) 1st Ser. Episode 1. 42/1 Are you now or have you been at any time a practising homosexual?

2013 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 23 Jan. Differences of opinion have emerged as France's Catholic Church fights a rearguard action against plans to let homosexuals and lesbians marry and adopt children.

Compounds

homosexual marriage n. a (long-term) domestic partnership between two people of the same sex; (in later use) esp. a formal union between same-sex partners, as legally recognized in some jurisdictions or societies; (also) the action of entering into such a relationship; the practice or condition of same-sex marriage.Cf. gay marriage n. at gay adj., adv., and n. Compounds 2b, same-sex marriage n. at same-sex adj. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1915 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex (ed. 3) II. i. 11 Among the Tschuktsches, Kamschatdals, and allied peoples..there are homosexual marriages among the men, and occasionally among the women.

1971 Times 15 July 13/1 He has..moved back to live with a former pupil who is on the point of deserting him for homosexual marriage with a publisher.

2010 Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois) 29 Oct. v. 1/5 I support the traditional definition of marriage and oppose homosexual marriage and civil unions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	homosexual
释义	homosexualadj.n. Brit. /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊ(ə)l/, /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)l/, /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛksjʊ(ə)l/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊ(ə)l/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)l/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛksjʊ(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌhoʊmoʊˈsɛkʃ(əw)əl/, /ˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃ(əw)əl/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: homo- comb. form, sexual adj. Etymology: < homo- comb. form + sexual adj., originally after German homosexual, now rare (K. M. Kertbeny 1869, also as noun: see note). Compare French homosexuel (1891, apparently after German), and German homosexuell, now the usual form (1878; 1898 also as noun).The German adjective homosexual , along with its noun use and several derivatives, was apparently first printed in Das Gemeinschädliche des § 143 des preussischen Strafgesetzbuches (1869) 30, 54, and passim (by K. M. Kertbeny, originally published anonymously), which challenges a law against homosexuality; the term is contrasted in this text with †normalsexual heterosexual, lit. ‘normally sexual’. Kertbeny also already used homosexual in a letter dated 6 May 1868, alongside heterosexual heterosexual adj. In German, both these terms have now been superseded by their equivalents in -sexuell , apparently after sexuell sexual adj. Kertbeny's terminology was adopted by G. Jäger, whose work in turn informed R. von Krafft-Ebing's Pyschopathia Sexualis, which was known to J. A. Symonds (compare quot. 1891 at sense A. 1a), and which was also translated into English (from the 7th revised edition of 1892; compare e.g. quot. 1892). Later uses with specific reference to male homosexuality are probably influenced by folk-etymological association of the first element with classical Latin homo human being, person, in post-classical Latin also ‘adult male human being’ (see homo n.¹ and compare the discussion at man n.¹). Chiefly Psychology and Psychoanalysis in early use. A. adj. 1. a. Characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to, or sexual activity with, people of the same sex; involving or relating to same-sex desire or sexual activity.Both as an adjective and a noun, homosexual was for much of the first half of the 20th cent. the most widely accepted term used to refer to same-sex desire and activity, and to same-sex oriented individuals, especially men. While the term is still used in many formal contexts, from the 1960s onwards gay became preferred by many same-sex oriented men, who regarded homosexual as too formal and clinical, or as being associated with a history of the treatment of homosexuality as a medical or psychiatric condition and the criminalization of sex between men in many jurisdictions. When referring to same-sex desire and relations between women, the term lesbian is often preferred. ΚΠ 1891 J. A. Symonds Probl. in Mod. Ethics viii. 60 The author [sc. Richard Burton] endeavoured to..frame a general theory regarding the origin and prevalence of homosexual passions. 1892 C. G. Chaddock tr. R. von Krafft-Ebing Psychopathia Sexualis iii. 255 He had been free from homo-sexual inclinations [Ger. homosexualen Anwandlungen]. 1930 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 20 Apr. 9/4 Michel proceeds from a heterosexual liaison to a homosexual one. 1965 E. Rosen & I. Gregory Abnormal Psychol. xviii. 381 Homosexual behavior in human females, also known as lesbianism or sapphism,..is less likely to arouse social censure than male homosexuality. 1985 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Dec. 1746 Our advice is urgently needed by the gay community on the hazards of homosexual sex. 2012 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 28 July e12 For the past 27 years, she had been in a homosexual relationship. b. Sexually or romantically attracted to, or engaging in sexual activity with, people of one's own sex. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [adjective] > homosexual inverted1870 Uranian1883 homosexual1892 homogenic1894 camp1910 homosex1913 queer1914 homoerotic1915 homosexualist1920 homo1923 faggoty1928 tapette1930 fag1932 gay1934 so1937 same-sex1938 faggy1949 ginger beer1959 that waya1960 that way inclineda1960 ginger1965 minty1965 pink1972 leather1990 1892 C. G. Chaddock tr. R. von Krafft-Ebing Psychopathia Sexualis iii. 256 The homo-sexual woman [Ger. das weibliebende Weib] offers the same manifestations, mutatis mutandis. 1907 Scotsman 30 Oct. 9/5 The Court had come to the conclusion that the plaintiff was actually homo-sexual. 1937 W. S. Maugham Theatre xxiv. 238 If he had been homosexual she would surely have had some hint of it; after all, in society since the war they talked of practically nothing else. 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex iii. 24 Not all effeminate men are homosexual, and few homosexual men can be really described as effeminate. 1993 Feminist Stud. 19 366 ‘Gay’..was in use as a slang term among some homosexual men and lesbians as early as the 1920s and quite commonly in the 1940s. 2012 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 23 July b3/2 People who are homosexual never woke up one day and decided to become homosexual. c. Of, relating to, or associated with homosexual people; welcoming to, popular with, or catering for homosexual people. ΚΠ 1894 G. Ives Diary 15 Nov. in E. Ellman Oscar Wilde (1988) xv. 364 If Bosie has really made Oxford homosexual..he has done something good and glorious. 1906 J. R. Parke Human Sexuality 309 In American homosexual argot, female inverts.., are known euphemistically as ‘bulldykers’. 1914 G. B. Shaw in New Statesman 14 Nov. 21/2 The forty tolerated homosexual brothels of Berlin. 1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential ii. xii. 131 Portland has a considerable homosexual population. Many aren't mincing effeminates, either. 1983 N.Y. Times 17 June b4/2 In San Francisco..the public health authorities have now posted warning signs about AIDS in homosexual bars and bathhouses. 1992 L. Garnets et al. in G. M. Herek & K. T. Berrill Hate Crimes iv. xiii. 217 Among the basic assumptions to be avoided are that a homosexual identity or life-style is negative and unhealthy. 2009 Times 15 Oct. 29/3 The British Armed Forces..now actively encourage recruitment from the homosexual community by taking part in gay pride events. 2. Designating sexual activity between animals of the same sex; of or relating to such activity; (of an animal) that engages in such activity. ΚΠ 1897 H. Ellis & J. A. Symonds Sexual Inversion i. 2 Among animals in a domesticated or confined state it is easy to find evidence of homosexual attraction, due merely to the absence of the other sex. 1937 Trans. Linn. Soc. N.Y. 4 195 Homosexual pairs rarely occur where there is much difference in the plumage of the sexes; apparently a male in full breeding plumage..cannot take the submissive role. 1972 Auk 89 721 For an understanding of the displays of the homosexual cocks the homologous performance of the male Ostrich in the normal heterosexual courtship is briefly described. 2000 G. Haggerty Gay Hist. & Cultures 55/2 It is probably incorrect to speak of homosexual animals or animal homosexuality, because virtually nothing is known about the cognitive aspects of sexuality in nonhuman species. 2017 Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 27 Jan. Homosexual behaviour has been observed in 1500 different species, from killer whales to crabs to lions. B. n. A person who is sexually or romantically attracted to members of his or her own sex.In later use more often applied to men than to women, for whom the term lesbian is more common. See also note at sense A. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person urning1883 invert1892 homosexual1894 Uranist1895 homosexualist1898 Uranian1908 intersexualc1910 homoerotic1915 homo1923 one of those1927 freak1941 homophile1945 gay1953 consenting adult1957 minty1957 lesbigays1992 1894 E. Carpenter Homogenic Love 19 With regard to the number of these quite exclusive homosexuals (supposably born so) estimates vary, from one man in every 50 to one in every 500. 1934 China Press (Shanghai) 3 Mar. 16/3 It should..have been no surprise to the department that when homosexuals are committed to a prison they remain homosexuals. 1954 W. Mayer-Gross et al. Clin. Psychiatry iv. 179 Male homosexuals are frequently classified into the active and the passive type; female homosexuals into the masculine and feminine. 1974 D. Clement & I. La Frenais Porridge: Scripts (2002) 1st Ser. Episode 1. 42/1 Are you now or have you been at any time a practising homosexual? 2013 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 23 Jan. Differences of opinion have emerged as France's Catholic Church fights a rearguard action against plans to let homosexuals and lesbians marry and adopt children. Compounds homosexual marriage n. a (long-term) domestic partnership between two people of the same sex; (in later use) esp. a formal union between same-sex partners, as legally recognized in some jurisdictions or societies; (also) the action of entering into such a relationship; the practice or condition of same-sex marriage.Cf. gay marriage n. at gay adj., adv., and n. Compounds 2b, same-sex marriage n. at same-sex adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1915 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex (ed. 3) II. i. 11 Among the Tschuktsches, Kamschatdals, and allied peoples..there are homosexual marriages among the men, and occasionally among the women. 1971 Times 15 July 13/1 He has..moved back to live with a former pupil who is on the point of deserting him for homosexual marriage with a publisher. 2010 Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois) 29 Oct. v. 1/5 I support the traditional definition of marriage and oppose homosexual marriage and civil unions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1891
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