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Aromantic vs Bromantic - What's the difference?

aromantic | bromantic |

As adjectives the difference between aromantic and bromantic

is that aromantic is not given to experiencing romantic attraction to others while bromantic is having the qualities of bromance, pertaining to a close but non-sexual relationship between two men, a form of homosocial intimacy.

As a noun aromantic

is one who does not experience romantic attraction to others.

aromantic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not given to experiencing romantic attraction to others.
  • * 2011 , Soojin Chang, " 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.
  • * 2012 , Anthony F. Bogaert, Understanding Asexuality , Rowman & Littlefield (2012), ISBN 9781442200999, unnumbered page:
    • 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 , Anonymous, " 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)
  • One who does not experience romantic attraction to others.
  • * 1986 , Wanda Urbanska, The Singular Generation , Doubleday & Company (1986), ISBN 9780385192644, page 86:
    • Ours is a generation of aromantics , jaded about matters of the heart — often before gaining firsthand experience.
  • * 2012 , Marina Hale, " 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.
  • * 2012 , Olivia Gordon, " '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.”’

    Usage notes

    * Not to be confused with aromatic.

    Derived terms

    * aromanticism * aromanticness

    Also see

    * * asexual

    bromantic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the qualities of bromance, pertaining to a close but non-sexual relationship between two men, a form of homosocial intimacy.
  • * 2013 , John Alberti, Masculinity in Contemporary Popular Cinema: Gender as Genre
    • whether Andrew represents a bohemian hipster ideal or a version of the bromantic perpetual adolescent.