Meanings
- not comparableRomantically attracted to men or masculinity.
Gabriel – androromantic¹⁷⁸ gender-queer half-Pole, half-Mexican. Grew up in Mexico City, moved to Kraków to attend university (Slavic languages).
2019 May 27, Anna Jastrzembska, From invisibility to political witch-hunt: The influence of everyday marginalization on the sense of Polish and European belonging among the LGBTQ+ minority in Poland (Master's Degree thesis), Lund University – Masters of Arts Program in European Studies, page 301 more example
There are also romantic identities that exist outside of the gender binary and consist of: androromantic (attracted to male-identified persons), gyneromantic/gynoromantic (attracted to female-identified persons), and transromantic (attracted toward transgender persons, i.e., male-to-female or female-to-male individuals).
2016, Sarah M. Steelman, Katherine M. Hertlein, “Underexplored Identities: Attending to Asexuality in Therapeutic Contexts”, in Journal of Family Psychotherapy, volume 27, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 89
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂nḗr
- Proto-Hellenic*anḗr
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓νδρός (ăndrós)
- Englishandro-
- LatinRōma
- LatinRōmānus
- Latinrōmānicus
- Vulgar Latinrōmānicē
- Old Frenchromanz
- Old Frenchromaunt
- Englishromant
- Englishromantic
- Englishandroromantic
Cite this entry
androromantic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/androromantic
“androromantic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/androromantic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “androromantic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/androromantic.
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