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   homosexual

   /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊ(ə)l/

   adjective

   • 1. sexually or romantically attracted exclusively to people of one's own sex: "campaigning by homosexual men and women for an end to social and legal discrimination"
   • ▪ involving or characterized by sexual or romantic attraction between people of the same sex: "homosexual desire"

   noun

   • 1. a person who is sexually or romantically attracted exclusively to people of their own sex.

   Word Origin late 19th century: from homo- ‘same’ + sexual.

   Derivatives

   • 1. homosexually adverb

   Scrabble Points: 22

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