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Pansexual vs Heterosexual - What's the difference?

pansexual | heterosexual |

As nouns the difference between pansexual and heterosexual

is that pansexual is someone who is attracted to all types of people regardless of gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation while heterosexual is heterosexual.

As an adjective pansexual

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

pansexual

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Sexually attracted or open to all people regardless of gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • *
  • Sexually attracted to everyone.
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  • 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 ----

    heterosexual

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (lb) Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex.

    • Synonyms

    * (sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex) (l), (l),

    Hyponyms

    * heteroflexible

    Coordinate terms

    * * heteroromantic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heterosexual person, or other heterosexual organism.

    • Synonyms

    * (heterosexual person) (l) (especially in the plural), (l), (l)

    Antonyms

    * homosexual