panromantic

comparative more panromantic · superlative most panromantic

1. artTranscending various forms of Romanticism (“an intellectual (especially artistic, literary, musical, and philosophical) movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, characterized by an emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of nature and the past, preferring the medieval to the classical”).

   He [Ludwig Klages] is the one who provided a philosophical foundation in Germany for a pan-romantic way of thinking about the nature of the human being, […]

   2009, Max Scheler, translated by Manfred S. Frings, The Human Place in the Cosmos […] (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy), Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 60

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   These romantics were the first explorers of the unconscious, the instinctive, the automatic. They were on a quest for the world of the dream and the magical. Other poets and philosophers, like Novalis, [Johannes] Baader and [Clemens] Brentano, emphasized the transcendental and mystic element, and became interested in the renaissance of symbolical lore. […] The publication of Federico Garcia Lorca's The Poet in New York, in a translation by Rolfe Humphries, brings this pan-romantic tendency into focus. […] This promenade through the "romantic labyrinth of New York" by the poet, […] uses that fantastic imagination so characteristic of the Spanish creative expression—not a surréalist imagination, as so many facile observers state, but one steeped in the baroque.

   1940 September, Eugene Jolas, “Poets and Poetry: Beyond Surrealism”, in Leon Bryce Bloch, editor, The Living Age, volume 359, number 4488, East Stroudsburg, Pa.: The Living Age Company […], →OCLC, page 94

   […] Hans Vaihinger, […] laid some of the foundations for the new panromantic anthropology. According to Vaihinger, man, in his spiritual aspects, is primarily the "animal creating useful fictions of life."

   1958, Max Scheler, “Man and History”, in Oscar A. Haac, transl., Philosophical Perspectives […], Beacon Hill, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →OCLC, page 88

   For [Max] Scheler, the 'Allmensch' […] is an attempt to reconcile the panromantic conception of the collective soul with a more conventional understanding of the rational 'Geist'.

   1996, Christopher J. Thornhill, “Origin and Interior”, in Walter Benjamin and Karl Kraus: Problems of a ‘Wahlverwandtschaft’ (Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik [Stuttgart Works in German Studies]; no. 319), Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg: Verlag Hans-Deiter Heinz, →ISBN, page 21

   Of course, one could easily regard this feeling of estrangement as a characteristic of Romanticism itself and consequently align it with a pan-romantic sentiment that our culture experiences to this day.

   2016, Tobias Hermans, “‘Intermediality’ as an Aesthetic Program: Gustav Mahler‘s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen as a Post-Romantic Response to Wilhelm Müller’s Winterreise and Die schöne Müllerin”, in Leena Eilittä, Catherine Riccio-Berry, editors, Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality: The Intersection of Visual, Aural, and Verbal Frontiers, Lanham, Md.; London: Lexington Books, →ISBN, part II (Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality), page 187

2. neologismlifestyleRomantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex.First known use early 21st c.

   First, I should probably tell you that I'm a fourteen-year-old female who is not sexually oriented as of yet, but happens to be panromantic.

   2012 November 14, Barbara Greenberg, quoting A Confused Teen [pseudonym], “Should I Talk to My Parents about Sex?”, in Psychology Today, New York, N.Y.: Sussex Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC

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   As Jessica, a twenty-one year old white woman who self-identifies as a bi- or panromantic asexual describes, Outside of AVEN [Asexuality Visibility and Education Network] or conversations specifically about sexuality, I don't really consciously think of myself as asexual.

   2008 October, Kristin S. Scherrer, “Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire”, in Sexualities, volume 11, number 5, London: SAGE Publications, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2024

   Part of what is so fascinating about the asexuality movement is the broad spectrum of sexuality that it reveals. Neth, a 24-year-old from the West Country, describes herself as a "panromantic asexual".

   2012 February 25, Rosie Swash, “Among the asexuals”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2025

   "I feel like it's really important to say that anyone can be queer," said Sonja Lund, a sophomore theatre major and panromantic lesbian on panel at the event. Someone who is panromantic is romantically attracted to others but is not limited by the other's sex or gender, but Lund is only sexually attracted to women.

   2012 October 22, -Katie Gossen, “Residence Life Defies LGBT Stereotypes”, in The Panther, Orange, Calif.: Chapman University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016

   Synonyms: omniromantic, pan

plural panromantics

1. neologismlifestyleA person who is romantically attracted to people regardless of gender identity or sex.

   My only objection to the pansexual word is its emphasis on the sexual—which is also my objection to the term bisexual. Indeed, there may be more panromantics and biromantics than pansexuals and bisexuals.

   2018 June 14, Ritch C. Savin-Williams, “Are Pansexuals Bisexual, Queer, Trans, Asexual, or Unique?”, in Psychology Today, New York, N.Y.: Sussex Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC

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   Within this group of romantic asexuals, orientation varies: heteroromantics only feel romantic attraction to the opposite sex, homoromantics to the same sex, biromantics to both sexes and panromantics without reference to sex or gender.

   2011 August, Mark Carrigan, “There’s More to Life than Sex? Difference and Commonality within the Asexual Community”, in Sexualities, volume 14, number 4, London: SAGE Publications, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2017, page 469

   As with sexual orientation, romantic orientation is a spectrum: homoromantics desire to have romantic relationships with people of the same gender, heteroromantics with the opposite gender, bi/panromantics with varied genders, and aromantics do not desire any romantic relationships. It's important to recognize that people of all sexual orientations also have a romantic orientation, and one's romantic orientation doesn't need to correspond with their sexual orientation.

   2023, Frances H. I. Henry, Anna Renee Henry, “Sexual Orientation in the Furry Fandom”, in Courtney N. Plante [et al.], editors, Furscience: A Decade of Psychological Research on the Furry Fandom, Commerce, Tex.: International Anthropomorphic Research Project, →ISBN, part 3 (By the Numbers: Furry Demographics), page 505