aromantic

comparative more aromantic · superlative most aromantic

1. That feels little or no romantic attraction to others and/or romantic desire.First known use 21st c.

   No, just because I’m aromantic does not automatically mean I am also asexual (I happen to really like sex).

   2012 November, anonymous author, “Pandora's box: The stigmas surrounding aromanticism”, in The Scripps Voice, volume 16, number 4,1, Scripps College, page 5

   2 more examples

   Although there are aromantic asexuals who do not experience the instinctual emotional need to be in a romantic relationship, many asexuals seek monogamous partners and value intimate connections just like sexual people.

   2011 November 28, Soojin Chang, “Sex is the biggest nothing”, in The Daily Californian

   However, if she [Emily Brontë] was asexual, she likely was not aromantic (see chapter 2 for distinction between sex and romance), or at least she had a high-level understanding of romance, as she wrote one of the most intensely romantic novels of her time, Wuthering Heights.

   2012, Anthony F. Bogaert, Understanding Asexuality, Rowman & Littlefield, published 2012, →ISBN

   Synonyms: aro, romantic · Antonyms: alloromantic

plural aromantics

1. One who does not experience romantic attraction to others.

   Ours is a generation of aromantics, jaded about matters of the heart — often before gaining firsthand experience.

   1986, Wanda Urbanska, The Singular Generation, Doubleday & Company, published 1986, →ISBN, page 86

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   Anna is an asexual, aromantic. Before discovering those terms, she assumed herself to merely be unusually disinterested in sex or relationships.

   2012, Marina Hale, "The Drop-Down Menu Identity Crisis", Glass Buffalo (University of Alberta), Spring 2012, page 51

   'I let it slip one time at work that I’m an asexual aromantic [an asexual who is also not interested in making romantic attachments], and they think it’s absolutely hysterical,’ says Jean Wilson, a sales assistant and 63-year-old grandmother from Banbury. 'One of the women I work with said, “I don’t think you’ve met the right man yet.” I said: “Trish, I’m 63. If I haven’t met him by now I don’t think I’m going to.”’

   2012 November 12, Olivia Gordon, “'The moment I realised I was asexual'”, in The Telegraph

   Synonyms: aro · Antonyms: alloromantic