pansexuality

English

Etymology

From pansexual +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpæn.sɛk.ʃuˈæl.ɪ.ti/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpæn.sɛk.sjuˈæl.ɪ.ti/

Noun

pansexuality (usually uncountable, plural pansexualities)

1. A sexual orientation characterized by the potential for aesthetic attraction, romantic love and/or sexual desire for people regardless of their gender or sex.
   • 1976 June 7, Nik Cohn, “Inside the Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night”, in New York Magazine‎^[1]:

     They know nothing of flower power or meditation, pansexuality, or mind expansion.

2. (rare) Sexuality that encompasses all kinds of sexuality.
   • 1999, “Jennifer A Dobrac”, in The Oncale Opinion: A Pansexual Response, 30 MCGEORGE L. REV. 1269‎^[2], page 2:

     Pansexuality encompasses all kinds of sexuality. It differs, however, from pansexualism, a perspective that declares “all desire and interest are derived from the sex instinct.” Pansexuality includes heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and sexual behavior that does not necessarily involve a coupling. It includes, for example, masturbation, celibacy, fetishism, and fantasy. Moreover, pansexuality includes heteroerotic and homoerotic play and sexual aggression, sometimes mislabeled as “horseplay.”

Synonyms

• omnisexuality

Coordinate terms

sexual orientationsedit

• androsexuality
• asexuality
• bisexuality
• demisexuality
• graysexuality
• gynesexuality
• heterosexuality
• homosexuality
• omnisexuality
• pansexuality
• polysexuality
• sapiosexuality

Related terms

• pansexual

Translations

sexual orientation

• Basque: pansexualitate
• Breton: hollreizhelezh
• Bulgarian: пансексуа́лност f (panseksuálnost)
• Catalan: pansexualitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全性戀 / 全性恋 (quánxìngliàn), 泛性戀 / 泛性恋 (zh) (fànxìngliàn)

• Czech: pansexualita f
• Danish: panseksualitet, omniseksualitet
• Dutch: panseksualiteit (nl) f
• Esperanto: ĉiuseksemo, ajnseksemo
• Finnish: panseksuaalisuus (fi)
• French: pansexualité (fr) f
• Galician: pansexualidade f
• Georgian: პანსექსუალობა (ṗanseksualoba)
• German: Pansexualität (de) f
• Hindi: सर्वलैंगिकता f (sarvlaiṅgiktā)
• Hungarian: pánszexualitás (hu)
• Italian: pansessualità f
• Japanese: 全性愛 (ja) (ぜんせいあい, zenseiai)
• Korean: 범성애 (ko) (beomseong'ae)
• Norwegian: panfili
• Persian: همه‌جنس‌گرایی (hame-jens-garâyi)
• Polish: panseksualizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: pansexualidade (pt) f
• Romanian: pansexualitate f
• Russian: пансексуа́льность (ru) f (pansɛksuálʹnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пансексуалност f, пансексуализам m

  Roman: panseksualnost (sh) f, panseksualizam (sh) m

• Slovene: panseksualizem m
• Spanish: pansexualidad (es) f
• Swedish: omnisexualitet, pansexualitet (sv)
• Tamil: அனைத்துப்பாலீர்ப்ப (aṉaittuppālīrppa)
• Turkish: panseksüellik (tr)
• Uzbek: panseksuallik