Whiskers wrote:
> On 2013-08-25, rozeandi@gmail.com<rozeandi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday, 12 April 2009 10:53:36 UTC+4:30, Thomas Hejl Pilgaard wrote:
>>> 1. Is there a word for male sexuality than ends in -ism?
>
> If you mean 'for male homosexuality', the answer is no.
>
>>> Gayism doesn't seem to work.
>>>
>>> A friend of mine claims that it is in fact "homosexualism",
>>> since homo means man (which I don't quite agree with), meaning
>>> that homosexualism means sex among men,
>
> "Homosexualism" (which isn't in the OED and which I've never heard or
> seen in writing, but would nonetheless be a perfectly good word) would
> probably mean "acting in a homosexual way" or "acting like a homosexual
> (or homosexualist)". In practice, "homosexual" or "homosexuality" seem
> to be found adequate.
I just checked and it turns out "analize" isn't in the dictionary,
even though it seems a perfectly good word to me. Not that I've ever
actually needed to use it, but still.
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