sodomy
English · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
sodomy
- /ˈsɒdəmi/
Where it comes from
From Sodom, where the Bible, in Genesis chapters 18 and 19 and elsewhere, suggests sexual depravity.
noun sodomies
-
Any of several forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural, particularly bestiality or homosexuality, but also (sometimes) anal, oral, or manual sex.
Mr. Shakur and his road manager, Charles Fuller, 24, were convicted Dec. 1 of first-degree sexual abuse, but they were acquitted of weapons and sodomy charges.
Similar: bestiality, zoophilia, zoosexuality, homosexuality
- Anal sex. The only published study (Feigen, 1954), which looked at 68 adults engaging in consensual anal sex, found that “it was not possible to relate the appearance of the anus to the practice of sodomy; there was no appreciable difference of the anus in those who practiced sodomy frequently and those that
Translations
Every language
noun sex held to be unnatural
| Português | sodomia |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Sodomie |
| Italiano | sodomia |
| Română | sodomie |
| Русский | содоми́я sodomíja |
| العربية | لِوَاط liwāṭ |
| עברית | מַעֲשֵׂה סְדוֹם ma'asé sdom |
noun anal sex — see also anal sex
| Español | sodomía |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 男色, 肛門性交 kōmon seisō, ソドミー sodomī |
| 中文 | 㚻奸 jījiān, 雞姦 /鸡奸 jījiān |
| हिन्दी | पुरुषगमन puruṣagman, पुरुषमैथुन puruṣmaithun, गुदामैथुन gudāmaithun, लिवातत livātat, लौंडेबाज़ी lauṇḍebāzī, इग़लाम iġlām |
| Kiswahili | ulawiti |
| Português | sodomia |
| Français | sodomie, enculade |
| Deutsch | Analverkehr, Sodomie |
| Italiano | sodomia |
| Ελληνικά | σοδομία sodomía |
| Română | sodomie |
| Русский | содоми́я sodomíja |
Talk about this word "sodomy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sodomy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sodomy. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sodomy "sodomy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sodomy.Cite this
@misc{sodomy_2026,
title = {sodomy},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sodomy},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
