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pansexualist

pansexualist adjective: pertaining to or promoting the psychological theory of pansexualism.

Adjective

pansexualist (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to or promoting the psychological theory of pansexualism.
    • Wilhelm Fliess's critic Henning commented about both Fliess and Freud in this light when he complained of their joint efforts to displace the Darwinian "principle of selection" in favor of a rampant pansexualist philosophy (1910:232).1992, Frank J. Sulloway, Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 256

Noun

pansexualist (plural pansexualists)

  1. A proponent of the psychological theory of pansexualism.
    • Even Wilhelm Reich, who could be described as a more radical pansexualist than Freud himself, could not help speculating on the following lines...2013, Paul Halmos, Solitude and Privacy: A Study of Social Isolation, its Causes and Therapy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 9
    • Yet Freud, one must insist, was not a pansexualist. He rejected the epithet with considerable acerbity, not because he was secretly a one-sided adulator of libido, but because, quite simply; he thought that his denigrators were wrong.2006, Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 149
  2. (derogatory, rare, sometimes) A person who is attracted, or who is able to experience attraction, to everyone and everything.
    • Whitman is a pansexualist. He makes love with, among others, the sun, the night, the earth, the sea, and the winds (W 30, 49, 53). His synecdochic perception results in his genitalized identification with his environment, including the people around him. The spermatic trope works well to explain...1997, Alix Aurora Casteel, "Man and wife": gender-roles and family-roles in antebellum American literature
    • If sexual orgasm is the royal way to knowledge of God, perhaps such orgasm doesn't have to occur only with a woman. Maybe, as the gays and pansexualists claim, any kind of orgasm will qualify.2004, James L. Garlow, Peter Jones, Cracking Da Vinci's Code, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 183

Examples of pansexualist in a sentence

  • It also works well to describe the nature of his pansexualist eros.1997, Alix Aurora Casteel, "Man and wife": gender-roles and family-roles in antebellum American literature:
  • The pansexualists held that androgyny was needlessly limiting in scope.2011, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Del Rey, →ISBN:

Forms of pansexualist

pluralpansexualists

Origin of pansexualist

From pansexualism or pansexual + -ist.

Questions about pansexualist

What does pansexualist mean?
Pansexualist means pertaining to or promoting the psychological theory of pansexualism.
How do you use pansexualist in a sentence?
It also works well to describe the nature of his pansexualist eros.
What part of speech is pansexualist?
Pansexualist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near pansexualist in the dictionary

  1. panser
  2. panserositis
  3. pansers
  4. pansexual
  5. pansexualism
  6. pansexualist
  7. pansexualists
  8. pansexualities
  9. pansexuality
  10. pansexualization
  11. pansexualize

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