lithromantic
English
Alternative forms
- lithoromantic
Etymology
From lith- (“stone”) + romantic, invoking the LGBT meaning of stone (“willing to give but not receive pleasure”), as in stone butch.
Adjective
lithromantic (not comparable)
- Experiencing romantic attraction without a need or desire for reciprocation.
- 2017 February, Paul Byron, Sophia Rasmussen, Dani Wright Toussaint, Roanna Lobo, Kerry Robinson, Brett Paradise, ‘You learn from each other’: LGBTIQ Young People’s Mental Health Help-seeking and the RAD Australia Online Director, Sydney: Western Sydney University Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, DOI:, →ISBN, page 31:
- They listened to me and didn't talk about my gender and sexuality issues when I didn't bring it up. They also never said anything rude or judged me for the alternative or feminine clothes I started to wear. (16, agender/man, grey-asexual/sensual, grey-aromantic, demisexual/sensual, demiromantic, sapiosexual/sensual, sapioromantic, lithsexual/sensual, lithromantic, quoiromantic.)
- 2018, Tom Buckland, "Forge Games' Top 5 LGBT+ Characters", Forge Press (University of Sheffield), 16 February 2018, page 19:
- His sexuality could also be interpreted as lithoromantic, akoiromantic or apromantic, considering that he does not want or need the sexual attraction he has for Valbar to be reciprocated, highlighting sub-asexual identity spectrums that don't usually find themselves represented in video games.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:lithromantic.
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Related terms
- lithosexual