omnisexual
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/ˌɒm.nɪˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
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/ˌɒm.nɪˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/ · /ˌɑm.nɪˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
Definition of omnisexual
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Being attracted to all genders (sometimes distinguished from pansexual by saying omnisexual attraction may still take account of gender or prefer particular genders).
“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 […]”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Being attracted to all genders (sometimes distinguished from pansexual by saying omnisexual attraction may still take account of gender or prefer particular genders).
“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 […]”
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(not-comparable)Androgynous, exhibiting traits of all sexes.
“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.”
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(not-comparable)Having or exhibiting sexuality everywhere.
“Both Queen Victoria and Sigmund Freud have, however, become common adjectives in our time, one describing the Dark Ages of sexual repression, the other an omnisexual world in which everything has sexual significance.”
“To be a virgin in high school wasn't, even in the omnisexual milieu of the Pioneer Valley, such a social black spot.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From omni- + -sexual.
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