omnisexual
/ˌɑm.nɪˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Being attracted to all genders (sometimes distinguished from pansexual by saying omnisexual attraction may still take account of gender or prefer particular genders).
adj
Androgynous, exhibiting traits of all sexes.
adj
Example Sentences
- "This omnisexual libertine who shuttles between his whore and his catamite (with equally regular visits to his tailor) has no classical prototype since aggressive bisexuality was completely acceptable as ‘masculine’ behaviour in ancient Greek society."
- "There was something in this that made our relationship more than homosexual, and more than heterosexual. Perhaps it could be called an omnisexual relationship."
- "In short, all readers can share, consciously and/or unconsciously, Whitman’s omnisexual vision—omnisexual in the all-encompassing sense of embracing auto-, homo-, and heteroerotic impulses."
- "These Oedipal tensions are mirrored by a structural conflict between the [new Doctor Who] series’ tacit multiculturalism—captured by omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness, who exemplifies an exogamous future humankind that goes to the stars to “dance” with every species they meet—and the drive to reunite the nuclear family […]"
- "Psyche’s participation in the archetypical patterns of heroic action logically implies that heroism itself is an asexual or omnisexual archetype."
- "Historically, sameness sexism marks the disappearance of conditions in which goddess religions flourished: prepatriarchal conditions in which men imagined women as awesome, omnipotent birth-givers, omnisexual creatures with both big breasts and penises."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɑm.nɪˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
- British English: /ˌɒm.nɪˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/