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How to pronounce lesbianism in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms sapphism
Type of gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, queerness
Has types tribadism

Examples of lesbianism

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Wasn't she at Wellesley, where, we are informed, lesbianism is strikingly common?
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Voyeurism and incipient lesbianism are enough to make any young matron restive.
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Another term for a masculine woman is butch, which is associated with lesbianism.
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Lesbianism was never illegal in Britain nor its colonies, including Australia.
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Or perhaps, like Queen Victoria, he just doesn't believe lesbianism exists.
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I do know that by espousing lesbianism it lost one former supportive vote.
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The 1934 plays deals with an accusation of lesbianism in a girls'school.
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Another assistant is rather surprised to discover that she is leaning toward lesbianism.
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To the end of her life, she never spoke publicly about her lesbianism.
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  • Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females."Lesbian", , Second Edition, 1989. Retrieved on January 7, 2009. ...
  • (Lesbians) Women who form their primary loving and sexual relationships with other women. Some lesbians prefer to call themselves "lesbians" and use the term "gay" to refer to gay men. Others use the term "gay" to refer to all homosexuals.
  • Some readers also point out the lesbian theme in the latter half of the book, when Esther discovers that her friend Joan is gay, and remembers a story of two women students who were dismissed from her university when they were found in a bedroom together, although they were only caressing each ...