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(Adult / Slang)

ETYMOLOGY: From the Greek, heteros meaning other / different from, + sexual.

1. A person who is sexually and/or romantically attracted to people of the opposite sex.
SYNONYMS: het; hetero; breeder (derogatory); commoner (derogatory).

2. Pertaining to individuals attracted to the opposite sex.
Synonym: heterocentric; straight.
SEE ALSO: asexual; bisexual; bisensual; monosexual; homosexual; hypothalamus; pansexual; transgendered; pangendered.

Quote: Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ' Some men are heterosexual, and some men are homosexual, and some men don't think about sex at all. They become lawyers.'

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(Noun) form of sexuality

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