Aeromantic vs Aromantic - What's the difference?
aeromantic | aromantic |
Not given to experiencing romantic attraction to others.
* 2011 , Soojin Chang, "
* 2012 , Anthony F. Bogaert, Understanding Asexuality , Rowman & Littlefield (2012), ISBN 9781442200999,
* 2012 , Anonymous, "
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One who does not experience romantic attraction to others.
* 1986 , Wanda Urbanska, The Singular Generation , Doubleday & Company (1986), ISBN 9780385192644,
* 2012 , Marina Hale, "
* 2012 , Olivia Gordon, "
As adjectives the difference between aeromantic and aromantic
is that aeromantic is pertaining to or of the nature of aeromancy while aromantic is not given to experiencing romantic attraction to others.As a noun aromantic is
one who does not experience romantic attraction to others.aromantic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Sex is the biggest nothing", The Daily Californian , 28 November 2011:
- 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.
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- 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 .
Pandora's box: The stigmas surrounding aromanticism", The Scripps Voice (Scripps College), Volume 16, Issue 4, 1 November 2012, page 5:
- No, just because I’m aromantic does not automatically mean I am also asexual (I happen to really like sex).
Noun
(en noun)page 86:
- Ours is a generation of aromantics , jaded about matters of the heart — often before gaining firsthand experience.
The Drop-Down Menu Identity Crisis", Glass Buffalo (University of Alberta), Spring 2012, page 51:
- Anna is an asexual, aromantic . Before discovering those terms, she assumed herself to merely be unusually disinterested in sex or relationships.
'The moment I realised I was asexual'", The Telegraph , 12 November 2012:
- '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.”’