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lesbianism definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: female homosexuality [syn: lesbianism, sapphism]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1870 female homosexuality

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lesbianism Les"bi*an*ism, n. (Med.) Unnatural sexual relations between women.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Lesbianism refers to homosexual relationships between women or the preference that a woman shows for sexual relationships with women. ...today's increased public awareness of lesbianism.

Moby Thesaurus

active algolagnia, algolagnia, algolagny, amphierotism, autoeroticism, bisexuality, coprophilia, exhibitionism, fetishism, heterosexuality, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, incest, incestuousness, masochism, narcissism, necrophilia, paraphilia, passive algolagnia, pedophilia, sadism, sadomasochism, sapphism, scotophilia, sexual inversion, sexual normality, sexual preference, swinging both ways, transvestitism, tribadism, tribady, voyeurism, zooerastia, zoophilia