panromantic
/ˌpænɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/
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Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
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4
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9
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Meaning
adj
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”).
adj
Romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex.
noun
A person who is romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex.
Example Sentences
- "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.""
- "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'."
- "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, […]"
- "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."
- "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."
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.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌpænɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/
- British English: /ˌpænɹə(ʊ)ˈmæntɪk/
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Synonyms
omniromantic
pan