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Swinging vs Troilism - What's the difference?

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Troilism is a related term of swinging.



As nouns the difference between swinging and troilism

is that swinging is the act or motion of that which swings while troilism is the practice of having sex involving three participants, i.e. threesomes.

As a verb swinging

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective swinging

is fine, good, successful.

swinging

English

(wikipedia swinging)

Noun

  • The act or motion of that which swings.
  • * 1973 , Socialist Review (volume 8, page 331)
    • Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism
  • An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Fine, good, successful.
    • The party was swinging .

    troilism

    English

    Alternative forms

    * triolism

    Noun

    (wikipedia troilism) (-)
  • The practice of having sex involving three participants, i.e. threesomes.
    • "Troilism is an unusual practice. "
    "The woman wants to censor us, Hill. If she had her way, all we'd show would be TV.

    Derived terms

    * troilist * troilistic

    Related terms

    * * swinging * threesome * trois * twosome, foursome, fivesome, etc. * voyeurism English words suffixed with -ism