pseudoheterosexuality

noun

Behaviour which appears to be heterosexual but is really homosexual.

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Meanings

nounpseudoheterosexuality (uncountable)
  1. uncountableBehaviour which appears to be heterosexual but is really homosexual.
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    Homosexuality is one of the possible consequences of failing to work out these negative oedipal feelings. Another is pseudoheterosexuality. A man, for instance, might choose a wife (and she needn't look or act "masculine") because she has certain qualities which make her, for him, a stand-in for a male lover.

    1986, Judith Viorst, Necessary Losses, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 111

Origin

From pseudo- + heterosexuality.

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