b 3 i 1 s 1 e 1 x 8 u 1 a 1 l 1
8 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes
adjective sexually attracted to both sexes
adjective having an ambiguous sexual identity
originFrom bi- + -sexual, via the French bisexuel (bi-, sexuel). Attested since 1792 as a synonym in botany for "hermaphroditic" ("having male and female parts"). First used of sexuality in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis (in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof, due to the theory that people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and so…
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