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situationship

American  

[sich-oo-ay-shuhn-ship] / ˌsɪtʃ uˈeɪ ʃən ʃɪp /

noun

Informal.

1. a romantic or sexual relationship that its participants have not defined, and which can also lack commitment or exclusivity.

   After two years of a messy situationship, she was looking for someone who wanted to settle down.

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Etymology

Origin of situationship

First recorded in 2005–10; situation ( def. ) + (relation)ship ( def. )

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situationship

Next to all that, a rocky relationship styled into an on-and-off situationship for a reality TV subplot is the proverbial hill of beans Rick Blaine mentioned in “Casablanca.”

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

Over the course of the eight-episode season of “Overcompensating,” their freshman situationship quickly gets more and more complicated.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

Watching Levano’s video, I couldn’t help but feel like many of us are essentially in a toxic situationship with discount culture.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2025

Her dating life was the definition of the situationship, before that was even a thing.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025

Today, Laufey reads Coco Mellors’s essay, “An Anxious Person Tries to Be Chill,” which is about a woman trying to work through her deep-seated relationship anxieties and attachment issues in an on-again, off-again situationship.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

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