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Definition of Heterosexual

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

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

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)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterosexual

Heteroptera heteropterous heteropterous insect heteroptics heteropyknosis heteropyknotic heteropyknotic chromatin heteros heterosaccharide heteroscedasticity

Heteroscelus Heteroscelus incanus heteroses heterosexism heterosexual (current term) heterosexual (current term) heterosexualism heterosexuality heterosexuality heterosexually

heterosexuals heterosexual person heteroside heterosis heterosis heterosmia Heterosomata heterosomati heterosome heterospecific

Literary usage of Heterosexual

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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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