urning

/ ˈɜːnɪŋ /

noun

1. a rare word for (esp a male) homosexual

Word History and Origins

Origin of urning¹

C20: from German, from Urania (Aphrodite); compare uranism

Example Sentences

But ought this excess of nervous erethism to be referred necessarily to the peculiar nature of the Urning?

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Ulrichs maintains that the body of an Urning is masculine, his soul feminine, so far as sex is concerned.

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Ulrichs explained it by the presence of a feminine soul in a male body, and gave the name Urning to its subjects.

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Broadly speaking, the male includes two main species: Dioning and Urning, men with normal and men with abnormal instincts.

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But such consequences have nothing in themselves to do with the sexual inversion proper to the Urning.

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