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Pan vs Pansexual - What's the difference?

pan | pansexual |

As nouns the difference between pan and pansexual

is that pan is a wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking while pansexual is someone who is attracted to all types of people regardless of gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

As adjectives the difference between pan and pansexual

is that pan is pansexual while pansexual is sexually attracted or open to all people regardless of gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

As a proper noun Pan

is greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus.

As an acronym PAN

is acronym of lang=en.

As a verb pan

is to wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).

pan

Translingual

(wikipedia Pan)

Proper noun

    • Hypernyms

    * (genus) (Hominidae Hypernyms); Homininae - subfamily; Hominini - tribe; Panina - subtribe

    Hyponyms

    * (genus) Pan paniscus'', ''Pan troglodytes - species

    External links

    * (Chimpanzee) * ("Pan" species on Wikimedia) * (comcatlite) ----

    pansexual

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Sexually attracted or open to all people regardless of gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • *
  • Sexually attracted to everyone.
  • * '>citation
  • Welcoming people of all sexual orientations.
  • * {{quote-book, 1998, Dossie Easton & Catherine A. Liszt, The Ethical Slut citation
    • , passage=We like to attend pansexual group sex parties, which means that attendees may identify as gay or lesbian or bisexual or hetero or transgendered, but are generally comfortable and happy to play side-by-side with people whose desires may be entirely different than their own.}}

    Derived terms

    * pansexuality * pansexually

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who is attracted to all types of people regardless of gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

    • Usage notes

    * Both may already logically include everyone. * Furthermore, some people translate differently, leading to arguments that one term means "many" and the other means "all", which may lead to claims that one is proper (not sexually exclusive to any human gender identity) and the other is improper and potentially insinuative of zoophilia.

    See also

    * * pangender ----