panromantic

adjective

romantically attracted to people regardless of sex or gender

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌpænɹə(ʊ)ˈmæntɪk/ / /ˌpænɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/

adj

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 Latin -nus 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.

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.”
“[…] 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."”
Romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex.
“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.”
“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".”

noun

A person who is romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex.
“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.”
“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.”