inversionism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

inversion +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

inversionism (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, psychology) Homosexuality, regarded as sexual inversion.
    • 1855, Andrew Jackson Davis, The Great Harmonia: The reformer, page 117:
      Parents and teachers, having but little or no knowledge of the laws of nature, are unable to detect the victims of inversionism.
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