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Bisexual   /bˌaɪsˈɛkʃuəl/   Listen
Bisexual

adjective
1.
Sexually attracted to both sexes.
2.
Having an ambiguous sexual identity.  Synonym: epicene.
noun
1.
A person who is sexually attracted to both sexes.  Synonym: bisexual person.



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"Bisexual" Quotes from Famous Books



... exotic, tombe des nues[Fr], preternatural; denaturalized[obs3]. heterogeneous, heteroclite[Gram], amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal[obs3]; asymmetric &c. 243; adelomorphous[obs3], bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous[obs3]. qualified &c. 469. singular, unique, one-of-a-kind. newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled. Adv. unconformably &c. adj.; except, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... necessary to explain things to The Author, because a portion of his brain is purely and cattily feminine. That's why he is a genius. No man is a genius whose brain isn't bisexual. ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler

... still generally recognized; thus Iwan Bloch applies the term "homosexuality" to the congenital form, and "pseudo-homosexuality" to its spurious or simulated forms. Those persons who are attracted to both sexes are now usually termed "bisexual," a more convenient term than "psycho-sexual hermaphrodite," which was formerly used. There remains the normal ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... was finished; the Residency stood in the middle of the city, surrounded by two hundred thousand of King Orgzild's troops and subjects. Since Ullerans were bisexual, the total population, less the senile, crippled, and very young, was the military potential. Sending Kankad's five hundred warriors and his meager contragravity there would be the same as shoveling them into a furnace. ...
— Uller Uprising • Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr

... the masculine inverts stated the bisexual theory in its crudest form in the following words: "It is a female brain in a male body." But we do not know the characteristics of a "female brain." The substitution of the anatomical for the psychological is as frivolous as it is unjustified. The tentative explanation ...
— Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex • Sigmund Freud



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