heterosexual:

ETYMOLOGY: From the Greek , heteros meaning other / different from, + sexual.

1. A person who is sexually and/or romantically attracted to people of the opposite-sex .
SYNONYMS: het ; hetero; breeder (derogatory); commoner (derogatory).

2. Pertaining to individuals attracted to the opposite-sex .
Synonym: heterocentric; straight .
SEE ALSO: asexual ; bisexual ; bisensual ; monosexual; homosexual ; hypothalamus ; pansexual ; transgendered ; pangendered .

Quote: Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ' Some men are heterosexual, and some men are homosexual , and some men don't think about sex at all. They become lawyers .'

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