different between pansexuality vs sexuality

English

Etymology

From pansexual +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæns?k?u?æl?ti/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæns?ksju?æl?ti/

Noun

pansexuality (usually uncountable, plural pansexualities)

1. A sexual orientation characterized by the potential for aesthetic attraction, romantic love and/or sexual desire for people regardless of their gender or sex.
2. Sexuality that encompasses all kinds of sexuality.

Synonyms

• omnisexuality

Related terms

• pansexual

Coordinate terms

• (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexual (-ity, ace), bisexual (-ity, bi), demisexual (-ity, demi), graysexual (-ity), heterosexual (-ity, straight), homosexual (-ity, gay, lesbian), omnisexual (-ity), pansexual (-ity, pan), plurisexual (-ity), polysexual (-ity), robosexual (-ity), sapiosexual (-ity), androsexual (-ity), gynesexual (-ity) ^{(Category: en:Sexual orientations)}

Translations

English

Etymology

sexual +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?k?u?æl?ti/, /s?ksju?æl?ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?k?u?æl?ti/
• Rhymes: -æl?ti
• Hyphenation: sex?u?al?i?ty

Noun

sexuality (countable and uncountable, plural sexualities)

1. The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.
   • 2003, John Harrison Burnett, Fungal Populations and Species, Oxford University Press on Demand (?ISBN), page 282:

     An alternative pattern of change from sexuality to asexuality in Ascomycotina could involve the widespread occurrence of female sterility. Both asexuality and 'female sterility' are widespread in Ascomycotina, and this may indicate that many ascomycotous Fungi Anamorphici have lost sexuality by a gradual process initiated by the loss or mutation of a gene other than an MTF resulting in 'female sterility'. […] There is also clear evidnece that loss of sexuality has occurred more than once in Talaromyces [A] and, in addition, asexual species are separated from sexual species by short branch lengths in terminal clades […]

   • 2005, G. H. Walter, Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research, Cambridge University Press (?ISBN), page 166:

     The asexuality of insects is, in almost all cases, known to be a derived condition. That is, their evolution was contingent on the sexuality of their ancestral forms. Only a few asexual groups are 'species' rich and ostensibly asexual […]

2. Sexual activity; concern with, or interest in, sexual activity.
3. Sexual potency.
4. Sexual orientation.
5. Sexual identity, gender.

Antonyms

• asexuality

Derived terms

Related terms

• sex
• sexual

Translations

See also

• sensuality

References

• sexuality at OneLook Dictionary Search
• sexuality in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• sexuality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.