Entry: homoeroticism (n.)
In context: "A grunting, crunching ballet of repressed homoeroticism, football, Ms. Steepley, on my view."
Definition: Pertaining to or characterized by a tendency for erotic emotions to be centred on a person of the same sex; of or pertaining to a homo-erotic person. Freq. a synonym of homosexual.
Other: Interestingly, for a phenomenon that's existed for the humanity, this term was only coined in 1916.
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 1047
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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