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English
Etymology
Coined by New Zealand American psychologist, sexologist, and college professor John Money.
Pronunciation
Noun
sexual orientation (countable and uncountable, plural sexual orientations)
- The tendencies of a person's sexual attraction, considered as a whole.
- There are more sexual orientations than simple homosexuality and heterosexuality.
- (obsolete) The process of orientation with regard to a sexual goal or potential partner.
Synonyms
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Translations
sexual orientation
- Afrikaans: seksuele oriëntasie
- Albanian: orientim seksual m
- Arabic: تَوَجُّه جِنْسِيّ m (tawajjuh jinsiyy)
- Armenian: սեռական կողմնորոշում (seṙakan koġmnorošum)
- Asturian: orientación sexual f
- Aymara: sarnaqaña uñtapa
- Azerbaijani: seksual orientasiya, cinsi yönümlülük, cinsi orientasiya
- Basque: sexu-joera, orientazio sexual
- Belarusian: сексуа́льная арыента́цыя f (sjeksuálʹnaja aryjentácyja)
- Bengali: যৌন অভিমুখীতা (bn) (jōun obhimukhita)
- Breton: tuadur reizhel m
- Bulgarian: сексуа́лна ориента́ция f (seksuálna orientácija)
- Catalan: orientació sexual f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 性傾向／性倾向 (zh) (xìngqīngxiàng), 性取向 (zh) (xìngqǔxiàng), 性指向 (zh) (xìngzhǐxiàng), 性位向 (zh) (xìngwèixiàng), 性向 (zh) (xìngxiàng)
- Czech: sexuální orientace f
- Danish: seksuel orientering c
- Dutch: seksuele geaardheid f, seksuele oriëntatie f, seksuele gerichtheid f, geaardheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: seksa orientiĝo
- Estonian: seksuaalne orientatsioon, seksuaalne suundumus
- Finnish: seksuaalinen suuntautuminen (fi)
- French: orientation sexuelle (fr) f
- Galician: orientación sexual (gl) f
- Georgian: სექსუალური ორიენტაცია (seksualuri orienṭacia)
- German: sexuelle Orientierung (de) f, sexuelle Ausrichtung (de) f, sexuelle Neigung f
- Greek: σεξουαλικός προσανατολισμός m (sexoualikós prosanatolismós)
- Hebrew: נטייה מינית f (netiya minit)
- Hindi: यौन अभिविन्यास (yaun abhivinyās)
- Hungarian: szexuális irányultság (hu)
- Icelandic: kynhneigð (is) f
- Ido: sexuala orientalizo
- Indonesian: orientasi seksual
- Irish: claonadh gnéasach m
- Italian: orientamento sessuale (it) m
- Japanese: 性的指向 (ja) (せいてきしこう, seitekishikō), 性指向 (ja) (せいしこう, seishikō), セクシュアルオリエンテーション (ja) (sekushuaru orientēshon)
- Kazakh: сексуалды бағыттану (seksualdy bağyttanu)
- Korean: 성적 지향 (seongjeok jihyang)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: berpêbûniya zayendî
- Latin: propensio sexualis f
- Latvian: seksuālā orientācija (lv) f
- Lithuanian: seksualinė orientacija f, lytinė orientacija f
- Macedonian: сексуа́лна ориента́ција f (seksuálna orientácija)
- Malay: orientasi seksual
- Malayalam: ലൈംഗികചായ്വ് (laiṅgikacāyvŭ)
- Maltese: orjentazzjoni sesswali f
- Maori: aronga hōkaka, aronga taera, taeratanga, hōkakatanga
- Marathi: लैंगिक कल (laiṅgik kal)
- Mongolian: бэлгийн баримжаа (belgiin barimžaa)
- Nepali: यौन अभिमुखिकरण (ne) (yaun abhimukhikaraṇ)
- Norman: orientâtion sexuelle f
- Norwegian: seksuell leggning, legning
- Bokmål: seksuell orientering m or f
- Nynorsk: seksuell orientering f
- Persian: گرایش جنسی (garâyeš-e jensi)
- Polish: orientacja seksualna (pl) f
- Portuguese: orientação sexual (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਲਿੰਗਕ ਅਨੁਸਥਾਪਨ (liṅgak anusthāpan)
- Romanian: orientare sexuală f
- Russian: сексуа́льная ориента́ция (ru) f (sɛksuálʹnaja orijentácija)
- Sardinian: orientamentu sessuale
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сексуална оријентација f
- Roman: seksualna orijentacija f
- Shuar: pampatai nekámuri
- Slovak: sexuálna orientácia f
- Slovene: spolna usmerjenost f, spolna orientacija f
- Spanish: orientación sexual (es) f
- Swedish: sexuell läggning (sv) c
- Tagalog: oryentasyong seksuwal
- Tajik: гироиши ҷинсӣ (giroyiš-i jinsi), гароиши ҷинсӣ (garoyiš-i jinsi)
- Tamil: பாலியல் நாட்டம் (pāliyal nāṭṭam)
- Thai: รสนิยมทางเพศ (rs̄niym thāng pheṣ̄)
- Turkish: cinsel yönelim (tr), cinsel tercih (tr)
- Ukrainian: сексуа́льна орієнта́ція (uk) f (seksuálʹna orijentácija)
- Urdu: جنسی کشش
- Uzbek: jinsiy moyillik
- Vietnamese: thiên hướng tình dục
- Welsh: cyfeiriadedd rhywiol, rhywioledd (cy), rhywioldeb (cy) m
- West Frisian: seksuële oriïntaasje
- Yiddish: סעקסואַלער אָריענטאַציע (seksualer oryentatsye)
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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See also
- (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexual (-ity, ace), bisexual (-ity, bi), demisexual (-ity, demi), graysexual (-ity), heterosexual (-ity, straight), homosexual (-ity, gay, lesbian), omnisexual (-ity), pansexual (-ity, pan), polysexual (-ity), sapiosexual (-ity), androsexual (-ity), gynesexual (-ity) (Category: en:Sexual orientations)
