sapphism
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sapphist, WLW, woman-loving woman, Sapphic, woman loving woman, woman who likes women, sapphist, sapphic
Sapphism is an umbrella term for women loving women (WLW); any woman attracted to women or in a relationship with another woman, regardless of their sexual orientations, and encompassing the romantic love between women. It is the female equivalent of Uranian and Achillean.
Key facts
- Sexuality.etymology
- Sappho + -ism or -ic
- Sexuality.derivatives
- Sapphist
- Sexuality.flag
- Sapphic Flag alternate with violet.svg
- Sexuality.flag_alt
- Sapphic Flag made of three equal-sized vertical stripes of pink, white, pink, with a small five petalled flower in the centre of the white stripe
- Sexuality.flag_name
- Sapphic pride flag
- Sexuality.title
- Sapphic
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- human female sexuality
- Has part
- lesbian
- Named after
- Sappho
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- partially coincident with
- lesbianism
- Unicode character
- ⚢
- short name
- WLW
- Commons category
- Sapphism
- hashtag
- Sapphic
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Encyclopedic overview
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Sapphism is an umbrella term for women loving women (WLW); any woman attracted to women or in a relationship with another woman, regardless of their sexual orientations, and encompassing the romantic love between women. It is the female equivalent of Uranian and Achillean.
== Etymology == thumb|right|250px|Sappho, by Enrique Simonet. The term sapphism has been used since the 1890s, and derives from Sappho, a Greek poet whose verses included her accounts of sexual and romantic love between women. She was born on the Greek island Lesbos, which also inspired the term lesbianism.
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