The word pansexual is attested as a term for a variety of attraction, alongside omnisexual (coming from the Latin omnis, 'all') and the earlier bisexual, by the 1970s.
The term was translated to German as Pansexualismus in Freud's work Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. The hybrid words pansexual and pansexualism were first attested in 1914 (spelled pan-sexualism), coined by opponents of Sigmund Freud to denote the idea 'that the sex instinct plays the primary part in all human activity, mental and physical'. The thinker Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller used the term Pansexualism to explain the aesthetic and sensual civilization that reconciled sensuality with reason. The prefix pan- comes from the Ancient Greek πᾶν ( pan), meaning 'all, every'. Omnisexuality may be used to describe those 'attracted to people of all genders across the gender spectrum', and pansexuality may be used to describe the same people, or those attracted to people 'regardless of gender'. Pansexuality is also sometimes called omnisexuality. 4 Pansexual & Panromantic Awareness Day.2 Comparison to bisexuality and other sexual identities.
