Definition of "homosexuality" []

• Sexual orientation to persons of the same sex. (noun)
• Sexual activity with another of the same sex. (noun)

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• "If, for example, homosexuality is objectively wrong, then it is simply irrelevant that a substantial portion of the human race finds homosexual activity pleasurable and satisfying, and that homosexuality* does no one else any material harm."
• "That was in the mid-1990s, when the term homosexuality was far from ordinary in Chinese people's life."
• "Just because the term homosexuality may be modern; the concept was not."