homosexualismn.
/ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)lɪz(ə)m/, /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛksjʊ(ə)lɪz(ə)m/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)lɪz(ə)m/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛksjʊ(ə)lɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃ(əw)əˌlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌhoʊmoʊˈsɛkʃ(əw)əˌlɪz(ə)m/ Homosexuality. Later also: advocacy of or support for homosexual rights or equality.Now much less common than homosexuality in standard English, and chiefly in contexts implying disapproval or aversion.
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1903 Independent (N.Y.) 17 Dec. 2994/2 A German musical play [sc. Parsifal]..juggling especially with the story of the Savior's life and death, with the Mass, and as a cardinal ethical proposition, homosexualism.
1949 R. Chandler Let. 9 July in Sel. Lett. (1987) 184 There ought to be a good novel in homosexualism, but this isn't it.
1960 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 28 Feb. in F. Donaldson Yours, Plum (1990) VI. 161 I sometimes wish I wrote that powerful stuff the reviewers like so much, all about incest and homosexualism.
1976 Daily Tel. 8 July 16 Aggressive feminism, homosexualism, environmentalism and all the other middle-class self-indulgences.
1990 L. Barber Mostly Men (1992) 204 It's the proselytizers I object to; the people who flaunt their homosexualism and try to subvert and convert other people to it.
2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Feb. (Review section) 5/3 President Mahama ‘does not subscribe to homosexualism and will not take any step to promote homosexualism in Ghana’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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