pansexual
US/pænˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
pansexual adjective: sexually attracted to people regardless of gender or sex.
Adjective
pansexual (not comparable)
- 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
- Obviously many women who answered the survey considered themselves bisexual in the past no longer do. Perceiving oneself as bisexual was often a stage of transition between heterosexuality and homosexuality. But others did consider and still consider themselves bisexual. Here are some stories of...1979, Karla Jay, Allen Young, The Gay Report: Lesbians and Gay Men Speak Out
- 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
- 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
- Pertaining to the psychological theory of pansexualism.
Noun
pansexual (plural pansexuals)
pansexual meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Indonesian
pansexual in Hindi
- sexually attracted to all genders
- सर्वलैंगिक sarvlaiṅgik
pansexual in Tamil
- அனைத்து பாலீர்ப்பு, அனைத்து பாலின ஈர்ப்பு, பலபாலீர்ப்பு, பலபாலின ஈர்ப்பு
pansexual in Bengali
- someone who is attracted to all genders
- সর্বকামী śorbokami
pansexual in Indonesian
- sexually attracted to all genders
- panseksual
Examples of pansexual in a sentence
- Karen and Carlos are definitely pansexual people who have paired off to have this child, and this seems real and good to them now.1970–1972 (printed in compiled form in 1973), Ramparts, page 25
- Here are some stories of bisexual or pansexual women and some comments about [...]1979, Karla Jay, Allen Young, The Gay Report: Lesbians and Gay Men Speak Out:
- As a writer/sexologist, he argues that people are neither homosexual nor heterosexual but pansexual.1995, Owen McNally, “The Vigor, Venom and Wit of Gore Vidal”, in Hartford Courant, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013, page E1:
- Some bloke in a newspaper called me a "frolicky pansexual sex symbol for the new millennium." I thought that was fabulous.1999, Steven Drukman, “Cumming Attraction”, in Out, page 82:
Forms of pansexual
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | pan-sexual |
| Noun | |
| plural | pansexuals |
Origin of pansexual
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.
Words formed from pansexual
Questions about pansexual
- What does pansexual mean?
- Pansexual means sexually attracted to people regardless of gender or sex.
- What is pansexual in Hindi?
- Pansexual in Hindi is सर्वलैंगिक (sarvlaiṅgik). See Pansexual meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use pansexual in a sentence?
- Karen and Carlos are definitely pansexual people who have paired off to have this child, and this seems real and good to them now.
- What part of speech is pansexual?
- Pansexual can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce pansexual?
- Pansexual is pronounced /pænˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/ (US).
Words near pansexual in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pansexual (page history and authors); Pansexual (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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