omnisexual

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Being attracted to all genders (sometimes distinguished from pansexual by saying…

   Being attracted to all genders (sometimes distinguished from pansexual by saying omnisexual attraction may still take account of gender or prefer particular genders).

   • There was something in this that made our relationship more than homosexual, and more than heterosexual. Perhaps it could be called an omnisexual relationship.
   • In short, all readers can share, consciously and/or unconsciously, Whitman’s omnisexual vision—omnisexual in the all-encompassing sense of embracing auto-, homo-, and heteroerotic impulses.
2. 2

   Androgynous, exhibiting traits of all sexes.

   • Psyche’s participation in the archetypical patterns of heroic action logically implies that heroism itself is an asexual or omnisexual archetype.
3. 3

   Having or exhibiting sexuality everywhere.

   • Both Queen Victoria and Sigmund Freud have, however, become common adjectives in our time, one describing the Dark Ages of sexual repression, the other an omnisexual world in which everything has sexual significance.
   • To be a virgin in high school wasn't, even in the omnisexual milieu of the Pioneer Valley, such a social black spot.

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