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Word of the Day – Omnifutuant

By March 29, 2021Word of the Day

Omnifutuant (adj)

om-nif-u-tw-ant

Practising or tolerant of both homosexual and heterosexual activity; bisexual.

1920s; earliest use found in Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), writer. From omni- + classical Latin futuent-, futuēns, present participle of futuere to have sexual relations with (further etymology uncertain); probably coined (in Latin form omnifutuentes) by Sir Richard Burton 1886 (Terminal Ess §4. D in tr. Arabian Nights X. 238); for usual later spelling in -ant compare -ant.

Example sentences

“He has omnifutuant leanings but he only loved her.”

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