What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Androgynous vs Bisexual - What's the difference?

androgynous | bisexual |

As adjectives the difference between androgynous and bisexual

is that androgynous is possessing the sex organs of both sexes while bisexual is sexually attracted to members of two or more genders.

As a noun bisexual is

a person who is bisexual. Someone who is attracted to people of two or more genders.

androgynous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Possessing the sex organs of both sexes.
  • Pertaining to a feature or characteristic that is not definitively of either sex.
    • Names like Pat, Terry and Jean are androgynous because they can be given to babies of either gender.
  • Possessing qualities of both sexes.
  • * Owen
    • The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous .

    Related terms

    * androgyne * androgyny

    See also

    * genderqueer * gender bender * hermaphroditic * intersex * shehe

    bisexual

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (sexuality, of humans or other animals) Sexually attracted to members of two or more genders.
  • (botany) Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
  • (botany) Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
  • (botany) Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
  • (botany) Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
  • (rare) Hermaphroditic.
    • Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual .

    Hyponyms

    * heteroflexible

    Related terms

    * bi-curious * biromantic

    Synonyms

    * (sexually attracted to persons of either sex) (slang), ambidextrous (jocular), bi (colloquial) * perfect, hermaphrodite * See also

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is bisexual. Someone who is attracted to people of two or more genders.
    • I have two family members who came out as bisexual ; my sister and my aunt.

    Synonyms

    * bi (colloquial) * See also

    Hypernyms

    *LGBT

    Also see

    * ----