bisexuality
bisexuality Lexical Profile
bisexuality Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The quality or characteristic of being romantically or sexually attracted to people of more than one sex or gender, or to both men and women.
"The sociological study explored how attitudes toward bisexuality have evolved over the past several decades."
In biology, the condition of an organism possessing both male and female reproductive organs or characteristics.
"In botany, floral bisexuality is common among angiosperms, allowing a single flower to produce both pollen and ovules."
• Rhymes for bisexuality
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the 19th century from the adjective 'bisexual' plus the suffix '-ity', originally used in botany and zoology to describe organisms possessing both male and female reproductive organs before being adopted in psychology in the late 1800s to describe sexual orientation.