aro-allo

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From aro +‎ allo.

Adjective

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aro-allo (comparative more aro-allo, superlative most aro-allo)

  1. (informal, neologism) Aromantic and allosexual.
    • 2020, Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex[1], page 130:
      It was always clear that my beliefs — that an aro-allo woman was independent while an aro-allo man was a fuckboy — were gendered stereotypes I should disavow.
    • 2020 August 12, Transcendragon (@a_the_orange), Twitter[2]:
      It seems like aro-allo people often have distinct experiences and face distinct challenges.
    • 2021 October 12, Ian Stobaugh, “Experiences of an aromantic, not asexual”, in The Daily Eastern News, Eastern Illinois University, page 3:
      Aroallo people are not automatically hypersexual, nor are we predators.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:aro-allo.

Noun

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aro-allo (plural aro-allos)

  1. (informal, neologism) An aromantic and allosexual person.
    • 2019 September 15, press y to honk (@ghostburritos), Twitter[3]:
      stop treating aroallos like they're just shitty people for being interested in sex and not romance 2k19
    • 2021 October 14, Ace Girl (@acegirleatscake), Twitter[4]:
      Harmful stereotypes about aroallos is that “they want sex all the time” and they’re “hypersexual” when that’s just not true.
    • 2022 June 1, keris (@keropiji), Twitter[5]:
      please start including aroallos more. i see a lot of people assuming all aros are ace, which is frankly untrue and are harmful to both communities. it’s very hard to find aroallos in media too
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:aro-allo.