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pansexual

adj
/pænˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/US

Etymology

From pan- + -sexual. First attested in 1926 (with pansexualism attested since 1917), as a descriptor of the psychological theory that all human activity is based on sexuality. Used to describe a sexual orientation since at least the 1970s.

Definitions

  1. Sexually attracted to people regardless of gender.

    • As a writer/sexologist, he argues that people are neither homosexual nor heterosexual but pansexual.

  2. Sexually attracted to everyone.

    • To the end he [Walt Whitman] denied that he was homosexual; his writings are pansexual, finding carnal ripeness in the soul, in nature, as well as in men and women.

  3. Welcoming people of all sexual orientations.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Pertaining to the psychological theory of pansexualism.

    2. Someone who is attracted to all types of people regardless of gender.

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Derived

demipansexual, pansexuality, pansexually, pansexy

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