pan·sex·u·al·ism
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or pansexuality \
-ˌsek-shə-ˈwal-ət-ē
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plural pansexualisms or pansexualities
Medical Definition of pansexualism
1
: the suffusion of all experience and conduct with erotic feeling
2
: the view according to psychoanalytic theory that all desire and interest are derived from the sex instinct
the reproach of pansexualism which has so often been levelled against psychoanalysis — Psychiatry
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