gyneromantic
gyneromantic adjective: romantically attracted to women, female-identified persons, or femininity.
Adjective
gyneromantic (not comparable)
- Romantically attracted to women, female-identified persons, or femininity.
- Whereas most of the sample identified as heterosexual (89%), sexual minorities made up about ten percent; 3.3% identified as gay; 1.9% identified as lesbian; 4.8% identified as bisexual; one individual identified as “gyneromantic/demisexual,” while another identified as “pansexual.”2013 Fall, Julio Montanez, At the Frontlines of the Kulturkampf: Social Policy Positions of Undergraduate Students at a Large University in the Southeastern United States (Honors (B.A.) thesis)...
- There are also romantic identities that exist outside of the gender binary and consist of: androromantic (attracted to male-identified persons), gyneromantic/gynoromantic (attracted to female-identified persons), and transromantic (attracted toward transgender persons, i.e., male-to-female or...2016, Sarah M. Steelman, Katherine M. Hertlein, “Underexplored Identities: Attending to Asexuality in Therapeutic Contexts”, in Journal of Family Psychotherapy, volume 27, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page...
Forms of gyneromantic
| alternative form | gynoromantic |
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Origin of gyneromantic
From Ancient Greek γῠνή (gŭnḗ, “woman”) + romantic.
Questions about gyneromantic
- What does gyneromantic mean?
- Gyneromantic means romantically attracted to women, female-identified persons, or femininity.
- What part of speech is gyneromantic?
- Gyneromantic is an adjective.
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