heterophilia (adjective, heterophilic): [the condition in which love and lust are attached to those of the other sex.] A condition of being in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and dependent upon a partner of the other morphologic sex [from Greek,
heteros other + -philia].
Synonym heteroerotic.
See also heterosexual;
heterosexualism;
homophilia;
homoseexual;
homosexualism.
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