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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γῠνή (gŭnḗ, “woman”) + romantic.
Adjective
gyneromantic (not comparable)
- Romantically attracted to women, female-identified persons, or femininity.
- Coordinate term: androromantic
2013 Fall, Julio Montanez, At the Frontlines of the Kulturkampf: Social Policy Positions of Undergraduate Students at a Large University in the Southeastern United States (Honors (B.A.) thesis), Orlando, FL: University of Central Florida – College of Sciences, The Burnett Honors College – Honors in the Major Program in Political Science, page 89:Whereas most of the sample identified as heterosexual (89%), sexual minorities made up about ten percent; 3.3% identified as gay; 1.9% identified as lesbian; 4.8% identified as bisexual; one individual identified as “gyneromantic/demisexual,” while another identified as “pansexual.”
2016, Sarah M. Steelman, Katherine M. Hertlein, “Underexplored Identities: Attending to Asexuality in Therapeutic Contexts”, in Journal of Family Psychotherapy, volume 27, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 89:There are also romantic identities that exist outside of the gender binary and consist of: androromantic (attracted to male-identified persons), gyneromantic/gynoromantic (attracted to female-identified persons), and transromantic (attracted toward transgender persons, i.e., male-to-female or female-tomale individuals).
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