uranic
/jʊˈɹæn.ɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Of, related to, or characteristic of male same-sex erotic desire and relationships; homosexual.
Example Sentences
- "From many other places in the classics the impression may be won that Uranic love attained a higher position even than her sister. More recent explanations of the homosexual instinct have emanated from philosophers, psychologists and natural scientists."
- "The patriotic assassination that so glorified Harmodios and Aristogeiton was in a vengeance for what was a homosexual marriage, we may say, between the two youths—whose uranic love was so virilized."
- "But the fact was that ever since Frederick the Great had forbidden women to his Praetorian Guard in the 1750s, obliging the guards to seek the company of boys for their pleasure, Berlin had been identified with soldierly inversion and uranic sexuality. Paragraph 175 of the Federal Criminal Code still forbade all homosexual activity but there were so many male prostitutes in Berlin […] that the law was more or less unenforceable."
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Etymology
From uran- + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Derived Forms
Phrases
uranic acid
uranic nitrate
uranic ocher
uranic ochre
uranic oxide
uranic sulfate
uranic sulphate