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heterosexual

[ het-er-uh-sek-shoo-uhlor, especially British, -seks-yoo- ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or exhibiting heterosexuality, sexual desire or behavior directed toward people of the other binary gender.
  2. Biology. of or relating to different sexes:

    heterosexual fraternal twins.



noun

  1. a person who is sexually or romantically attracted primarily to people of the other binary gender.

heterosexual

/ ˌhɛtərəʊˈsɛksjʊəl /

noun

  1. a person who is sexually attracted to the opposite sex


adjective

  1. of or relating to heterosexuality

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Word History and Origins

Origin of heterosexual1

First recorded in 1890–95; hetero- + sexual

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Example Sentences

However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.

Isolated lesbians learned that there were other women like them via books whose covers aimed to titillate heterosexual men.

“It was just another assumption based on a paradigm that marginalizes non-heterosexual people,” he writes.

Men, particularly white, heterosexual men, are undeniably in charge.

The children were assessed over time and those results were matched to children from heterosexual couples.

Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual magnetism.

Homosexual Eros has a different finality than heterosexual Eros.

Homosexual choice of object is originally more natural to narcism than the heterosexual.

Nearly all heterosexual shoe-fetichists seem, however, to be equally attracted by high heels.

Eliminating all these, there remain 44 heterosexual captures of adults.

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