pseudoheterosexuality en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From pseudo- + heterosexuality.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Behaviour which appears to be heterosexual but is really homosexual.
Homosexuality is one of the possible consequences of failing to work out these negative oedipal feelings. Another is pseudoheterosexuality. A man, for instance, might choose a wife (and she needn't look or act "masculine") because she has certain qualities which make her, for him, a stand-in for a male lover.
1986, Judith Viorst, Necessary Losses, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 111: