sexology

English

Etymology

From sex +‎ -ology.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

sexology (countable and uncountable, plural sexologies)

1. (sciences, sex) The study of sex and sexuality, usually from a psychological or clinical perspective.

Synonyms

• sexual psychology

Derived terms

• sexological
• sexologist
• space sexology

Translations

study of sex and sexuality

• Arabic: طِبّ جِنْسِيّ m (ṭibb jinsiyy)
• Bengali: যৌনবিদ্যা (jōunbidda)
• Burmese: လိင်ပညာ (my) (lingpa.nya)
• Catalan: sexologia f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 性學／性学 (sing³ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 性學／性学 (zh) (xìngxué)

• Czech: sexuologie (cs) f
• Danish: sexologi c
• Dutch: seksuologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: seksologio
• Finnish: seksologia (fi), sukupuolioppi, seksologia (fi)
• French: sexologie (fr) f
• Galician: sexoloxía f
• German: Sexualwissenschaft (de) f, Sexualforschung f, Sexologie f, Sexuologie f
• Greek: σεξολογία (el) f (sexología)
• Hebrew: סקסולוגיה (he) f
• Hungarian: szexológia (hu)
• Italian: sessuologia (it) f
• Japanese: 性科学 (ja) (せいかがく, seikagaku)
• Khmer: ភេទវិទ្យា (phet vi tyea)
• Korean: 성과학 (seonggwahak)
• Lithuanian: seksologija f
• Norwegian: sexologi m
• Papiamentu: sexologia
• Polish: seksuologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: sexologia (pt) f
• Romanian: sexologie (ro) f
• Russian: сексоло́гия (ru) f (sɛksológija)
• Serbo-Croatian: seksològija (sh) f, сексоло̀гија f
• Slovak: sexuológia f
• Slovene: seksologíja f
• Spanish: sexología f
• Swedish: sexologi c
• Tagalog: dalubsarian, seksolohiya
• Thai: เพศศาสตร์ (pêt sàat)
• Turkish: cinsellik bilimi (tr), seksoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: сексологія f (seksolohija)
• Urdu: جنسیات
• Vietnamese: tình dục học
• Welsh: rhywoleg

Further reading

• sexology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia