#aromantic terms

i don't claim to be the original roots mastermind of any of these, but they all came from my own brain.

neitherfriend/nf: a partner that is neither binary gender/neither a boyfriend or girlfriend.

n/afriend/n/af: a partner whose gender is not applicable.

zerofriend/0f: a partner who has zero/no gender

xfriend/xf: a partner whose gender is not specified.

[]friend/[]f: a partner whose gender is blank, like a box with nothing selected. (said like blankfriend irl)

🐟friend/🐟f: this one was just me being a dumbass

queerfriend/qf: a queerplatonic partner

brofriend/bf: a partner who is your bro. a more joking one, as the point of the acronym is to cause confusion.

fatefriend: when you're friends by fate, rejecting the idea that destiny has to be romantic in nature.

"roommate": a reference to the queer inside joke of roommates being historically gay while not having a romantic label on the relationship. yes the quotations are part of it

lab partner: a type of partner that's by your side but not in a romantic way

partner in crime: same as lab partner

<2oulmate: a combination of soulmate and the 2 heart used in aro communities. simply soulmate without the strictly romantic connotation. please dont use this one if you arent aro <2 is important to us 🙏

teammate: a relationship where you're on the same team in life as your partner.

bed buddy: a relationship where you're buddies that share a bed.

brodude: two platonic terms mashed together that makes it seem like the nature of the relationship may not be platonic, but no one can say for sure but you and your brodude. other variations are: manbro, galpal, palbro, brodudepal

Zine: 💚 Aromantic Basic Terms 🖤 (from the AUREA glossary)

Thank you!

Hi! I completely understand where you’re coming from. There are a LOT of terms in this community and even I’m still learning some!!

QPR refers to a queer platonic relationship. It’s the concept of a relationship between a friendship and a romantic relationship. Kind of like “more” than a friendship but “less” than a romantic relationship, usually in terms of affection, though personally I don’t like saying certain relationships are “more” than others. But the label means different things to different people, so it’s hard to explain what it is in specific terms.

As for other terms you may not know, here’s a glossary from AUREA (which is a great resource for all things aro!!): https://www.aromanticism.org/en/basic-terms

Sorry for the long wait, but happily!

• Lukas has a over-sized, striped sweater that he just puts on when he is small

• He used to have the entire Ocelots as his caregivers, but after they separated, it has been the New Order of the Stone

• Also, despite the amount of fighting during the first season's arc, Axel is his main caregiver + they're Foveos out of their headspaces ;]

• He also stays mute when he is little since his age is in newborn months

Hmm, I can’t say I’ve ever heard of a term like this? I’ll let my followers see this to see if anyone else has a term!

Added a buttload of tags to hopefully help.

Hi, Anon!  Aurea has a great list of terms, and one that might fit is Recipromantic (https://www.aromanticism.org/en/all-terms#r).  The definition they give is: “ Describes a person who feels romantic attraction only if the other person feels romantic attraction toward them first.”

Hello there!

A form of aromanticism affected by someone's distant memories of something from integration/fusing or joining of their existence with someone/something else