gayism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Here the Bible appears to directly address only the subject of male homosexuality: gayism versus lesbianism. On the latter, the Bible appears to be silent."
- "Out at the front were some of the young groom's mates, and one dropped off the lead to whisper to me. 'Are you a friendly boy?' 'Sorry?' 'A friendly boy?' He leaned closer. 'Are you interested in gayism?'"
- "To succeed in its argument, it is necessary that gayism denies that the cause of being gay is reasonable, intelligible and comprehensible. If one is gay not because of any choice but because one is born into the sexual orientation,[…]"
- "This is the condition you need before you can be bold enough to speak against gayism. Be sexually refined before you speak against homosexuality. Everyone should be sexually righteous. By this, your eyes must be refined of sexual[…]"
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:gayism."
Etymology
From gay + -ism. The formation of sense 2 is similar to e.g. transgenderism; the formation of sense 3, "discrimination based on gayness", is similar to e.g. sexism being discrimination based on sex or racism being discrimination based on race.