Meanings
- uncommonuncountableBisexuality.
Philia is the propensity to fall in love romantically with members of a particular sex or gender (or both, as in the case of biphilia). The three affectional orientations include opposite-sex, same-sex, and bidirectional.
2015 January 1, Ada L. Sinacore, Freda Ginsberg, Canadian Counselling and Counselling Psychology in the 21st Century, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 1141 more example
[…] from the outset it does not exhibit Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' biphilia, of which, as Doty notes, "It's never a matter of the woman choosing either men or each other, but of having both women and men available to them."
2012 December 17, Timothy Shary, Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 186
Origin
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biphilia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biphilia
“biphilia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biphilia. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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