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Romance vs Womance - What's the difference?

romance | womance |

As nouns the difference between romance and womance

is that romance is while womance is (slang) a close but non-sexual relationship between two women.

romance

English

(wikipedia romance)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
  • A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
  • Love which is pure or beautiful.
  • A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
  • A story or novel dealing with idealised love.
  • An embellished account of something; an idealised lie.
  • An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
    • His life was a romance .
  • A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
    • a girl full of romance
  • (music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.

    • Antonyms

    * platonic, platonic relationship, platonic love

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "romance")

    Derived terms

    * bromance * womance

    Verb

  • Woo; court.
  • To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    womance

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia womance) (en noun)
  • (slang) A close but non-sexual relationship between two women.
  • * 2012 , Sarah Mayberry, Within Reach , Harlequin (2012), ISBN 9780373717958, page 12:
    • “We're having an intense moment of womance here, do you mind?” Billie said.
  • * 2013 , Marcia Clark, "Chapter 3", Inherit the Dead , Touchstone (2013), ISBN 9781451684759, page 42:
    • “Angel goes through BFFs the way Limbaugh goes through oxy. Always has. I give their little 'womance' six months tops before Angel gets tired of her.”
  • * 2013 , Deborah Ross, " At last, a film about proper women who aren’t just drippily searching for love", The Spectator , 27 July 2013:
    • She shares an apartment with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner, daughter of Sting and Trudie Styler; she is terrific), but then Sophie dumps her for a rich boyfriend, and although the two have quite a womance going — ‘We are the same person, but with different hair,’ they tell everybody — we are never quite sure if Sophie is true or not.

    Synonyms

    * girl crush

    Coordinate terms

    * bromance * man crush

    See also

    * queerplatonic