sapphic

Examples

• All

• Your arms bespeak physical fitness and athleticism, but nothing sapphic.

  Destination Wedding (2018)

• I see our, uh, favorite sapphic poet is MIA.

  A Little White Lie (2023)

• We're briefly gorgeous, amazing, coming of age, sapphic and weird.

  Jack Edwards

• The single worker who just wants respect and a paycheck, or the ancient sapphic couple who can't have the rights inherent in marriage?

  Blog text (2)

• "Perhaps it's that men aren't to your taste, and in that case, there have been the normal conjectures as to who might be your Sapphic counterpart."

  Fiction book (1994)

• It's a love poem, 14 lines, an irregular sonnet, very sapphic, a bitter berating of my friend for not requiting his love.

  Fiction book (1990)

• AfterEllen.com is Logo's site for lesbians and bisexual women in entertainment and media, which means we pride ourselves on knowing all kinds of Sapphic pop-culture facts.

  Blog text (4)

• The film beautifully explores the themes of sapphic love and connection between the two main characters.

• Many poets have celebrated sapphic relationships in their works throughout history.

• Public discussions about sapphic identities have increased significantly in recent years.

Synonyms

L

lesbian

vssapphic

247 3.4

Describing romantic or sexual attraction between women

is an alternative term for that same attraction

H

homoerotic

vssapphic

• NSFW

9 9.1

Showing sexual attraction between people of the same sex

is specific to attraction between women rather than any same sex attraction

S

sapphist

vssapphic

• Literature

9.8

Relating to women who love women in literature or art

is used more broadly for female romantic or sexual attraction

Compounds

S

Sapphic ode

• Literature

9.9

A poem in four-line stanzas that follows an old Greek rhythm, often about love or strong feeling

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology