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transromantic en · ADJ

Etymology

From trans/trans- + romantic.

Meanings

1. Moving through or across romanticism (as a movement, etc) or that which is romantic (Romantic).
   • On the tormented Desire, as if naming the plight of self-blinded love in the album title itself, "Oh Sister" overcomes the broken covenant as the voice calls out for a confederation of male and female in transromantic quest: "We grew up together ..." 2009, Rob Wilson, Be Always Converting, be Always Converted: An American Poetics, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 180:
   • Modernism is literally transromantic: early Modernism emerges from Baudelaire's transformation of French Romanticism, and this transformation continues to influence writers, artists and critics. 2006, Rosemary Lloyd, The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
   • My argument is post- or transromantic, but that very move through romanticism leaves romantic traces everywhere. The most vital impulse in current translation theory that is excluded by these dualisms is a social one — a concern with ... 1991, Douglas Robinson, The Translator's Turn, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 267:
2. (neologism) Romantically attracted to persons of variant or ambiguous gender, or to transgender persons.
   • Often, however, asexual people will also identify with a particular sexual orientation, minus the sexual aspect, and may define themselves as heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic, transromantic or panromantic. 2009, Jennifer Byrne, "He's Just Not That Into Anyone, Pop Matters, 31 August 2009

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asexual