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panromantic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (General-American) audio
  • /ˌpænɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/ (General-American)
  • /ˌpænɹə(ʊ)ˈmæntɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-énts Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts? Proto-Hellenic *pánts Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)der. Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-)bor. English pan- Latin Rōma Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin Rōmānus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin rōmānicus Latin -ē Vulgar Latin rōmānicē Old French romanz Old French romauntder. English romant ▲ Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English romantic English panromantic From pan- (prefix meaning ‘all’) + romantic (“(adjective) of or relating to Romanticism; conducive to romance, affectionate, loving; (noun) person behaving romantically”). Adjective sense 2 (“romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex”) was independently coined in the early 21st century.

Meanings

  1. Transcending various forms of Romanticism (“an intellectual (especially artistic, literary, musical, and philosophical) movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, characterized by an emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of nature and the past, preferring the medieval to the classical”).
    • These romantics were the first explorers of the unconscious, the instinctive, the automatic. They were on a quest for the world of the dream and the magical. Other poets and philosophers, like Novalis, [Johannes] Baader and [Clemens] Brentano, emphasized the transcendental and mystic element, and became interested in the renaissance of symbolical lore. […] The publication of Federico Garcia Lorca's The Poet in New York, in a translation by Rolfe Humphries, brings this pan-romantic tendency into focus. […] This promenade through the "romantic labyrinth of New York" by the poet, […] uses that fantastic imagination so characteristic of the Spanish creative expression—not a surréalist imagination, as so many facile observers state, but one steeped in the baroque. 1940 September, Eugene Jolas, “Poets and Poetry: Beyond Surrealism”, in Leon Bryce Bloch, editor, The Living Age, volume 359, number 4488, East Stroudsburg, Pa.: The Living Age Company […], →OCLC, page 94:
    • […] Hans Vaihinger, […] laid some of the foundations for the new panromantic anthropology. According to Vaihinger, man, in his spiritual aspects, is primarily the "animal creating useful fictions of life." 1958, Max Scheler, “Man and History”, in Oscar A. Haac, transl., Philosophical Perspectives […], Beacon Hill, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →OCLC, page 88:
    • Of course, one could easily regard this feeling of estrangement as a characteristic of Romanticism itself and consequently align it with a pan-romantic sentiment that our culture experiences to this day. 2016, Tobias Hermans, “‘Intermediality’ as an Aesthetic Program: Gustav Mahler‘s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen as a Post-Romantic Response to Wilhelm Müller’s Winterreise and Die schöne Müllerin”, in Leena Eilittä, Catherine Riccio-Berry, editors, Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality: The Intersection of Visual, Aural, and Verbal Frontiers, Lanham, Md.; London: Lexington Books, →ISBN, part II (Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality), page 187:
    • For [Max] Scheler, the 'Allmensch' […] is an attempt to reconcile the panromantic conception of the collective soul with a more conventional understanding of the rational 'Geist'. 1996, Christopher J. Thornhill, “Origin and Interior”, in Walter Benjamin and Karl Kraus: Problems of a ‘Wahlverwandtschaft’ (Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik [Stuttgart Works in German Studies]; no. 319), Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg: Verlag Hans-Deiter Heinz, →ISBN, page 21:
    • He [Ludwig Klages] is the one who provided a philosophical foundation in Germany for a pan-romantic way of thinking about the nature of the human being, […] 2009, Max Scheler, translated by Manfred S. Frings, The Human Place in the Cosmos […] (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy), Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 60:
  2. (neologism) Romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex.
    • First, I should probably tell you that I'm a fourteen-year-old female who is not sexually oriented as of yet, but happens to be panromantic. 2012 November 14, Barbara Greenberg, quoting A Confused Teen [pseudonym], “Should I Talk to My Parents about Sex?”, in Psychology Today, New York, N.Y.: Sussex Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC:
    • As Jessica, a twenty-one year old white woman who self-identifies as a bi- or panromantic asexual describes, Outside of AVEN [Asexuality Visibility and Education Network] or conversations specifically about sexuality, I don't really consciously think of myself as asexual. 2008 October, Kristin S. Scherrer, “Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire”, in Sexualities, volume 11, number 5, London: SAGE Publications, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2024:
    • "I feel like it's really important to say that anyone can be queer," said Sonja Lund, a sophomore theatre major and panromantic lesbian on panel at the event. Someone who is panromantic is romantically attracted to others but is not limited by the other's sex or gender, but Lund is only sexually attracted to women. 2012 October 22, -Katie Gossen, “Residence Life Defies LGBT Stereotypes”, in The Panther, Orange, Calif.: Chapman University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016:
    • Part of what is so fascinating about the asexuality movement is the broad spectrum of sexuality that it reveals. Neth, a 24-year-old from the West Country, describes herself as a "panromantic asexual". 2012 February 25, Rosie Swash, “Among the asexuals”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2025:

Forms

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most panromantic Degree=Sup lexicographic
more panromantic Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

pan · panromanticism

Hypernyms

pluriromantic · multiromantic

Relateds

pancurious · pan-Romance · panromanic

Synonyms

pan · omniromantic

Translations (4)

fi panromanttinen (romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex) · fi yleisromanttinen (transcending various forms of Romanticism) · pl panromantyczny (transcending various forms of Romanticism) · pl panromantyczny (romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex)

panromantic en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (General-American) audio
  • /ˌpænɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/ (General-American)
  • /ˌpænɹə(ʊ)ˈmæntɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-énts Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts? Proto-Hellenic *pánts Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)der. Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-)bor. English pan- Latin Rōma Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin Rōmānus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin rōmānicus Latin -ē Vulgar Latin rōmānicē Old French romanz Old French romauntder. English romant ▲ Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English romantic English panromantic From pan- (prefix meaning ‘all’) + romantic (“(adjective) of or relating to Romanticism; conducive to romance, affectionate, loving; (noun) person behaving romantically”). Adjective sense 2 (“romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex”) was independently coined in the early 21st century.

Meanings

  1. (neologism) A person who is romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex.
    • As with sexual orientation, romantic orientation is a spectrum: homoromantics desire to have romantic relationships with people of the same gender, heteroromantics with the opposite gender, bi/panromantics with varied genders, and aromantics do not desire any romantic relationships. It's important to recognize that people of all sexual orientations also have a romantic orientation, and one's romantic orientation doesn't need to correspond with their sexual orientation. 2023, Frances H. I. Henry, Anna Renee Henry, “Sexual Orientation in the Furry Fandom”, in Courtney N. Plante [et al.], editors, Furscience: A Decade of Psychological Research on the Furry Fandom, Commerce, Tex.: International Anthropomorphic Research Project, →ISBN, part 3 (By the Numbers: Furry Demographics), page 505:
    • Within this group of romantic asexuals, orientation varies: heteroromantics only feel romantic attraction to the opposite sex, homoromantics to the same sex, biromantics to both sexes and panromantics without reference to sex or gender. 2011 August, Mark Carrigan, “There’s More to Life than Sex? Difference and Commonality within the Asexual Community”, in Sexualities, volume 14, number 4, London: SAGE Publications, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2017, page 469:
    • My only objection to the pansexual word is its emphasis on the sexual—which is also my objection to the term bisexual. Indeed, there may be more panromantics and biromantics than pansexuals and bisexuals. 2018 June 14, Ritch C. Savin-Williams, “Are Pansexuals Bisexual, Queer, Trans, Asexual, or Unique?”, in Psychology Today, New York, N.Y.: Sussex Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC:

Forms

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panromantics Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (3)

fi panromanttinen (person who is romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex) · pl panromantyczka (person who is romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex) · pl panromantyk (person who is romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex)