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Homo and Hetero
The opposite of hetero is ortho
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The opposite of hetero is ortho. Sure, Faldage! But not in the sexual "tense"! 
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So is red a hypernym of scarlet?If not, it should be.Well, it turns out it's not needed. Red would be a superordinate of scarlet. Apparently, it's superordinates and hyponyms. 
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"The opposite of hetero is ortho"
And I in my ignorance would have said the opposite of "hetero " was "iso", and the opposite of "ortho" was "laevo"
At least sometimes.
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And I in my ignorance would have said the opposite of "hetero " was "iso",
Ah, the lightness of levity and the graveness of gravity...
So the opposite of heterosexual is isosexual?
And the opposite of orthodox is lævodox?
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Isosexual just didn't get invented soon enough. And laevodoxy was Communism.
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laevodoxy was Communism*
Don't tell that to the early Christians.
*Ænigma proclaims that Lafayette was communist!
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