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GAYNESS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does gayness mean?

• GAYNESS (noun)
The noun GAYNESS has 1 sense:

1. a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex

Familiarity information: GAYNESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GAYNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gayness; homoeroticism; homosexualism; homosexuality; queerness

Hypernyms ("gayness" is a kind of...):

sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gayness"):

inversion; sexual inversion (a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex)

lesbianism; sapphism (female homosexuality)

paederasty; pederasty (sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner))

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