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Troilist vs Troilism - What's the difference?

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Troilism is a derived term of troilist.



As nouns the difference between troilist and troilism

is that troilist is a participant in a sexual threesome while troilism is the practice of having sex involving three participants, i.e. threesomes.

As an adjective troilist

is involving three sexual partners; pertaining to a threesome.

troilist

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Involving three sexual partners; pertaining to a threesome.
  • *1992 , (Gilbert Adair), The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice :
  • *:But, once they had properly got into their stride, the three singers whipped themselves up into a frenzy of sexual abandon, attaining heights of troilist ingenuity worthy of some erotomaniac Heath Robinson […].
  • *1999 , W Warren Wagar, A Short History of the Future , p. 198:
  • *:She has a troilist marriage with two men in her home department in South America.
  • *2010 , Alan Richardson, On Winsley Hill , p. 65:
  • *:They were both small, with the sort of dark-and-comely, fair-and-goodly features which could give Popes troilist fantasies – although nothing was in their minds much beyond flip-charts, language schemes, lip-patterns and audiograms.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A participant in a sexual threesome.

    • 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