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pan-sexual

pan-sexual is the alternative form of pansexual.

Meaning of pansexual

Adjective

pansexual (not comparable)

  1. Sexually attracted to people regardless of gender or sex.
    • Karen and Carlos are definitely pansexual people who have paired off to have this child, and this seems real and good to them now. When I had been with Karen, she had floated through several gay relationships, […] all my friends had been what I would call pansexual, avoiding the older term...1970–1972 (printed in compiled form in 1973), Ramparts, page 25
  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.2004, John Leland, Hip: The History, →ISBN, page 50
  3. Welcoming people of all sexual orientations.
    • We like to attend pansexual group sex parties, which means that attendees may identify as gay or lesbian or bisexual or hetero or transgendered, but are generally comfortable and happy to play side-by-side with people whose desires may be entirely different than their own.1998, Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt, The Ethical Slut, →ISBN, page 262
  4. Pertaining to the psychological theory of pansexualism.

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Synonyms of pan-sexual

Forms of pan-sexual

Adjective
comparativemore pan-sexual
superlativemost pan-sexual
Noun
pluralpan-sexuals

Words formed from pan-sexual

Questions about pan-sexual

What is pan-sexual the alternative form of?
Pan-sexual is the alternative form of pansexual.

Words near pan-sexual in the dictionary

  1. pan-Scandinavian
  2. Pan-Scandinavianism
  3. pan-Serb
  4. pan-Serbianism
  5. pan-Serbism
  6. pan-sexual
  7. pan-sexuals
  8. pan-Shia
  9. pan-Shiism
  10. Pan-Slav
  11. Pan-Slavic

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