Gendered attraction terms
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Here are some umbrella terms that apply to both mono and m-spec attraction (ie; "sapphic" could refer to a mono lesbian or a m-spec person):
Sapphic: Attraction to women (and potentially enben) that is queerfeminine or genderqueer in nature. Often used to discuss WLW, but can also describe NBLW/WLNB and even MLW/WLM (if the man involved is genderqueer in some nature.) Achillean: Attraction to men (and potentially enben) that is queermasculine or genderqueer in nature. Often used to discuss MLM, but can also describe NBLM/MLNB and even (genderqueer) MLW/WLM. Trixic: Enben who are attracted to women (and potentially other enben). Often used to discuss NBLW, but can also describe NBLNB or NBLGqM (GqM = genderqueer man.) Toric: Enben who are attracted to men (and potentially other enben). Often used to discuss NBLM, but can also describe NBLNB or NBLGqW (GqW = genderqueer woman.) Enbian: Enben who are attracted to other enben. Often used to discuss NBLNB, but can also describe NBLGqW or NBLGqM. Maedic: Women who are attracted to enben. Often used to discuss WLNB, but can also describe WLGqW or WLGqM. Adonic: Men who are attracted to enben. Often used to discuss MLNB, but can also describe MLGqW or MLGqM. Binitian: A binary person attraction to enben; an umbrella term for maedic and adonic. Diamoric: An umbrella term for any relationship or attraction that involves an enban. This includes trixic, toric, enbian, maedic, adonic, or binitian attraction/relationships, and some sapphic, achillean, julietian, romeric, and duaric attraction/relationships. Julietian: Women who are attracted to men (and potentially enben.) Often used to discuss WLM, but can also describe WLNB or WLGqW. Romeric: Men who are attracted to women (and potentially enben.) Often used to discuss MLW, but can also describe MLNB or MLGqM. Duaric: An umbrella term for julietian and romeric.
Here are some more specific terms:
Straight/Hetero-: A person who primarily experiences duaric attraction. May also be spelled as Strayt when being used by an enban/genderqueer person. Lesbian: A person who primarily experiences sapphic attraction. Uranian/Turian/Veldian: A person who primarily experiences achillean attraction. Feminamoric: A person who primarily experiences trixic attraction. Viramoric: A person who primarily experiences toric attraction. Contraic: An enben who is primarily attracted to genders they consider to be different from their own. Symmaic: An enben who is primarily attracted to genders they consider to be similar to their own. Tria-: A person who primarily experiences enbian or binitian attraction. A non-binary or genderqueer tria person may use the term Ceteramoric as well/instead. Lunaric: A tria- person who is primarily attracted to feminine enben. Solaric: A tria- person who is primarily attracted to masculine enben. Saturnic: A tria- person who is primarily attracted to androgynous enben. Neustellic: A tria- person who is primarily attracted to neutral enben. Nullstellic: A tria- person who is primarily attracted to null enben. Ageninic: A tria- person who is primarily attracted to genderless enben. Spacialic: A tria- person who is primarily attracted to xenine enben. Oustellic: A tria- person who is primarily attracted to outherine enben. Apstellic: A tria- person who is primarily attracted to aporine enben. Multiellic: A tria- person who is primarily attracted to multigender enben. Fluidellic is a subset of multiellic, describing a person primarily attracted to fluid/flux enben. Mono-: A person who is attracted to one type of gender (ie; a person who is attracted to only women.) Mspec/M-spec/The Multiattractional Spectrum: An umbrella term for people who are attracted to more than one type of gender. Bi-: A person who is attracted to two or more types of genders. Ambi- describes a bi person who is attracted to both similar and dissimilar genders. Dyo/Di- describes a bi person who is attracted to exclusively two types of genders (ie; a person who is only attracted to maveriques and women.) Bin- describes a bi person who is only attracted to the binary genders. Ply-/Poly-/Poli-: A person who is attracted to three or more types of genders, but not all types of genders. Neptunic: A ply person who is attracted to all genders except for masculine ones. Uranic: A ply person who is attracted to all genders except for feminine ones. Trixenamoric: A ply person who is attracted to all genders except for binary men. Torenamoric: A ply person who is attracted to all genders except for binary women. Omni-: A person who is attracted to all types of genders, but has gender preferences, presentation preferences, and/or is attracted to different genders in different ways. Fin-: An omni person who is attracted to all genders, so long as they present feminine qualities. Min-: An omni person who is attracted to all genders, so long as they present masculine qualities. Lin-: An omni person who is attracted to all genders, so long as they present androgynous qualities. Nin-: An omni person who is attracted to all genders, so long as they present neutral or null qualities. Agin-: An omni person who is attracted to all genders, so long as they present agenrine qualities. Ouin-: An omni person who is attracted to all genders, so long as they present outherine qualities. Pan-: A person who is attracted to all types of genders and has no gender or presentation preferences. They may have physical preferences (ie; preferring muscular people, preferring green eyes, etc), but gender plays no role in their attraction. Abro-: A person whose orientation is fluid or fluctuates (for example, they may be fin one day and uranic the next.) How often it changes varies from person to person. Mutoic- describes a person whose orientation changes under specific circumstances (ie; a person who is usually apstellic, but shifts to lesbian during the summer.)
Special mentions:
Mono Lesbian: A lesbian who is only attracted to one type of gender in all forms of attraction that they deem significant enough to label (ie; a person who is both romantically and sexually a mono lesbian, and doesn't deem it significant to label what genders they are attracted to in a nonromantic & nonsexual sense.) Mspec Lesbian: A lesbian who is also mspec in one or multiple forms of attraction. (Ie; a bisexual lesboromantic, an abrosexual who is most frequently a lesbian, a pansexual lesboalterous person, etc.) Lesboy: A lesbian who connects to the term "boy" or otherwise is connected to masculinity. This could be a trans man who was heavily involved in the sapphic community before transitioning and remains connected to it, a multigender lesbian who is partially a man, a butch lesbian, etc. Straight Lesbian/Straightbian/Lesbihet: A lesbian who is also straight in one or multiple forms of attraction, who is abro and fluctuates between straight and lesbian, or who is non-binary or genderqueer and considers their attraction to be simultaneously straight and lesbian at the same time (ie; a genderfluid person who feels lesbian when they are a woman, and straight when they are a demiboy.) Mono Uranian/Mono Turian/Mono Veldian: A uranian who is only attracted to one type of gender in all forms of attraction that they deem significant enough to label. Mspec Uranian/Mspec Turian/Mspec Veldian: A uranian who is also mspec in one or multiple forms of attraction. Turigirl/Uranigirl: A uranian that connects with the term "girl." This could be a trans woman who was heavily involved in the achillean community before transitioning and remains connected to it, a multigender uranian who is partially a woman, a femme uranian, etc. Straight Uranian/Straight Veldian/Straightcian: A uranian who is also straight in one or multiple forms of attraction, who is abro and fluctuates between straight and uranian, or who is non-binary or genderqueer and considers their attraction to be simultaneously straight and uranian at the same time. Gaybian: A person who is both uranian in one form of attraction and lesbian in another, or who is non-binary or genderqueer and considers their attraction to be simultaneously lesbian and uranian at the same time, or is multigender and considers their attraction to be lesbian or uranian depending on their gender.
