Not an inconvenience at all! I hope I’m not too late in replying, but in case anyone else needed it:
- romantic attraction - limerence, the desire to be in a romantic relationship with someone/fantasize about being in a romantic relationship with someone
- aromantic - someone who does not experience romantic attraction. (Note that some do still experience sexual attraction, but certainly not all.)
- alloromantic - someone who experiences romantic attraction of any kind, or someone who is not on the aromantic spectrum.
- aromantic spectrum - anyone who is lithromantic, aromantic, akoiromantic, etc.
- akoiromantic/lithromantic - (some people find the term ‘lithromantic’ problematic so akoiromantic might be preferable for a speech) someone who experiences romantic attraction in theory but not in practice. In an actual romantic relationship, their attraction fades.
- Gray-(a)romantic - someone who is somewhere between aromantic and alloromantic.
- demiromantic - someone who experiences secondary romantic attraction but not primary romantic attraction (or in simpler terms: only experiences romantic attraction to people they are already close to/know well).
- wtfromantic - someone who does not see the line between romantic and platonic attraction and therefore doesn’t know if they experience romantic attraction. (note that this has a lot of overlap with ‘aromantic’ - a lot of aromantics are also technically wtfromantic, but not all identify as such).
- queerplatonic/quirkyplatonic - a relationship that is something outside of, or in between, romantic and platonic. Note that “queerplatonic” is a word to be used only by queer-identified people.
- zucchini - a silly term some people invented for a queerplatonic partner.
- squish - a non-romantic crush. Really, really wanting to be friends with someone. EDIT TO ADD: Also can be used for wanting to be queer/quirkyplatonic partners with someone.
My followers can let me know if there’s anything I missed but I think those are all of the most common terms around here.
important terms, which are often overlooked