quirkyalone

plural quirkyalones

1. Someone who enjoys being single (but is not opposed to being in a relationship) and generally prefers to be alone rather than dating for the sake of being in a couple.

   Rilke is right. Being quirkyalone can be difficult. Everyone else is part of a couple!

   2003, Amelia Borofsky, Jennifer Karlin, editors, ReGeneration: Telling Stories from Our Twenties, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, →ISBN, page 220

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   Cagen wrote a short essay about her experience as a “quirkyalone”, and before she knew it, the term was taken up as a badge of pride by thousands.

   2007, Kate Crawford, Adult Themes: Rewriting the Rules of Adulthood, page 103

   Other groups emphasize the importance of adult care networks rather than critiquing marriage. Quirkyalones and urban tribalists hold ideals of sociability that reach beyond an isolated dyad.

   2012, Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

   The quirkyalone has come to appreciate singledom as a natural state and a way to live a fulfilling life.

   2013, Annie Harrison, Finding Mr Right: The Real Women's Guide to Landing that Man

   Synonyms: single