pansexual

Meanings

Adjective

• Sexually attracted to people regardless of gender.
• Sexually attracted to everyone.
• Welcoming people of all sexual orientations.
• Pertaining to the psychological theory of pansexualism.

Noun

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

Origin

• 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.