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Definition of Heterosexual

1. Adjective. Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex.

2. Noun. A heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex.

Definition of Heterosexual

1. Adjective. Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex. ¹

2. Noun. A heterosexual person, or other heterosexual organism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heterosexual

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Heterosexual

1. A person sexually attracted to persons of the opposite sex. The word straight has become synonymous with heterosexual. Heterosexual can also be an adjective. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterosexual

heteroreceptors heteroresistance heteroresistant heteroring heterorings heteros heterosaccharide heteroscedastic heteroscedasticity heteroscian

heteroscians heteroses heteroside heterosis heterosite heteroskedasticity heterosmia heterosomati heterosomes

Literary usage of Heterosexual

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"A. heterosexual ANOMALIES In the heterosexual anomalies it is true the inclination is toward the opposite sex, but at the same time it is markedly modified ..."

2. Medicolegal Aspects of Moral Offenses by Léon Henri Thoinot, Arthur Wisswald Weysse (1911)
"Fetichism is confined to the male and there is a heterosexual fetichism and a homosexual fetichism. General characteristics of fetichism. ..."

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