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heteroromantic

heteroromantic adjective: romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.

Adjective

heteroromantic (comparative more heteroromantic, superlative most heteroromantic)

  1. Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
    • Often, however, asexual people will also identify with a particular sexual orientation, minus the sexual aspect, and may define themselves as heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic, transromantic or panromantic.2009, Jennifer Byrne, "He's Just Not That Into Anyone, Pop Matters, 31 August 2009
    • It does not address other kinds of sexuality such as demisexual (sexual attraction is experienced only when accompanied by a strong emotional attraction), pansexual (attraction across all gender identities and biological sexes. Think “gender blind”), and the romantics...2012 October 5, Kristen Hammond, “Gettin’ down with the sexuality spectrum and where we fit”, in The Elm

heteroromantic meaning in Tamil

heteroromantic in Tamil

ஈரின பாலீர்ப்பு

Antonyms of heteroromantic

Forms of heteroromantic

comparativemore heteroromantic
superlativemost heteroromantic

Origin of heteroromantic

From hetero- + romantic.

Questions about heteroromantic

What does heteroromantic mean?
Heteroromantic means romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
What is heteroromantic in Tamil?
Heteroromantic in Tamil is ஈரின பாலீர்ப்பு. See Heteroromantic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is heteroromantic?
Heteroromantic is an adjective.

Words near heteroromantic in the dictionary

  1. heterorhabditids
  2. heterorhizal
  3. heterorhythmic
  4. heteroring
  5. heterorings
  6. heteroromantic
  7. heteroromanticism
  8. heteros
  9. heterosaccharide
  10. heterosaccharides
  11. heteroscadacity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heteroromantic (page history and authors); heteroromantic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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