pseudoheterosexuality
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pseudo- + heterosexuality.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pseudoheterosexuality (uncountable)
- Behaviour which appears to be heterosexual but is really homosexual.
- 1986, Judith Viorst, Necessary Losses, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 111:
- 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.