skeleton-countess wrote:I wonder if there's a term for being turned on by pretty much everything.
skeleton-countess wrote:I wonder if there's a term for being turned on by pretty much everything.
Gerste wrote:skeleton-countess wrote:I wonder if there's a term for being turned on by pretty much everything.
Panophilia? LOL. (From the Greek adjective "pas," for "all.")
Tululaboo wrote:Gerste wrote:skeleton-countess wrote:I wonder if there's a term for being turned on by pretty much everything.
Panophilia? LOL. (From the Greek adjective "pas," for "all.")
That would make a lot of sense actually, similar to the term pansexual, gotta remember that.
Tulula.
Gerste wrote:When I googled it just for kicks, it asked, "Did you mean panophobia"? Still, I did see a few improvised uses of it in that search. So technically, perhaps it can be said that we coined it. Whenever the Greek word pas is engrafted onto another word (as in the present case, pas-, "all," "every," + -philia, "love [of]") to create an amalgam or compound word, it is taken from the masculine singular genitive (pantos, which forms the basis for subsequent inflections), and hence the prefix pan- (pandemic, panphobia, pantheism, etc). (Pan is also the neuter nominative singular form for the word in Greek.) The sibilant ("s") in pas becomes "n/m" before hard or plosive, or even aspirated, consonants (e.g., dentals, "d," "th," or labials, "p," "ph," et al) for the simple reason that "s" (in pas) is not "euphonic" enough (i.e., it doesn't "sound good," or flow with pronunciation) in those combinations. I'm surprised that the "word" panphilia hasn't been formally accepted as a word (at least, not to my knowledge). Used enough times, it will catch on. Political correctness has no doubt precluded its usage as a formal term.
Tululaboo wrote:Gerste wrote:When I googled it just for kicks, it asked, "Did you mean panophobia"? Still, I did see a few improvised uses of it in that search. So technically, perhaps it can be said that we coined it. Whenever the Greek word pas is engrafted onto another word (as in the present case, pas-, "all," "every," + -philia, "love [of]") to create an amalgam or compound word, it is taken from the masculine singular genitive (pantos, which forms the basis for subsequent inflections), and hence the prefix pan- (pandemic, panphobia, pantheism, etc). (Pan is also the neuter nominative singular form for the word in Greek.) The sibilant ("s") in pas becomes "n/m" before hard or plosive, or even aspirated, consonants (e.g., dentals, "d," "th," or labials, "p," "ph," et al) for the simple reason that "s" (in pas) is not "euphonic" enough (i.e., it doesn't "sound good," or flow with pronunciation) in those combinations. I'm surprised that the "word" panphilia hasn't been formally accepted as a word (at least, not to my knowledge). Used enough times, it will catch on. Political correctness has no doubt precluded its usage as a formal term.
Wow thats some damn fine detective work thereI could not find anything ^.^
Tulula.
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