Uranian vs Urning - What's the difference?
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(science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Uranus.
A male homosexual.
* 2008 , Thomas Bohache, Christology From the Margins , page 194
* 2003 , Chuck Stewart, Gay and Lesbian Issues: A Reference Handbook , page 138
A 19th century term that referred to a person of a third sex.
Of or relating to a group of German homosexual artists.
(rare) homosexual
* 2003 , Chuck Stewart, Gay and Lesbian Issues: A Reference Handbook , page 138
* 1996 , Linda Dowling, Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford , page 134
* 1983 , Eric Garber and Lyn Paleo, Uranian worlds: a reader's guide to alternative sexuality in science fiction and fantasy
(astronomy) Of or relating to the planet Uranus.
Urning is a related term of uranian.
As nouns the difference between uranian and urning
is that uranian is an inhabitant of the planet Uranus while urning is a homosexual.As an adjective Uranian
is a 19th century term that referred to a person of a third sex.uranian
English
(wikipedia Uranian)Noun
(s)- One who engages in the love that dare not speak its name. Uranian . Homosexual. Invert. Gay. Lesbian. Queer.
- Carpenter was disappointed by these meetings with Whitman but began to integrate a positive homosexual view into his socialist writings. Carpenter saw the Uranian (homosexual) spirit to be more enlightened than that of the common man and believed that Uranians were the new prophets of the coming social revolution.
Adjective
(-)- Carpenter was disappointed by these meetings with Whitman but began to integrate a positive homosexual view into his socialist writings. Carpenter saw the Uranian (homosexual) spirit to be more enlightened than that of the common man and believed that Uranians were the new prophets of the coming social revolution.
- Before these ideals would once again become available to "homosexuality" as a positive social identity, however, the Uranian modality of male love would be rejected by the avant-garde itself as an outworn fashion.
- The title of this bibliography is derived from the nineteenth- century word for homosexual — Uranian . The word was coined by the early German homosexual emancipationist, Karl Ulrichs, and was popularly used through the First World War.