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affectional orientation
[ uh-fek-shuh-nl awr-ee-uhn-tey-shuhn, ‐en‐ ]
noun
- one's natural preference for a romantic partner of one gender or the other, or the absence of gender preference in a romantic relationship; one’s aromantic, biromantic, heteroromantic, homoromantic, or panromantic identity.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of affectional orientation1
First recorded in 1965–70
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