Citations:demiromantic

Adjective: "(neologism) romantically attracted to people only once a strong emotional bond has been established"

 * 2012, Haley Massar, "Is 'social justice' really just?", The Granite Bay Gazette (Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, California), Volume 16, Issue 4, 14 December 2012, page A10:
 * It almost feels as though there's this unspoken contest within SJ circles to see who can be the most underprivileged — that somehow, a non-binary pansexual demiromantic otherkin person of color's opinion is much more valid than mine.
 * 2013, Rafi Alam, "In other(kin) words", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 7, Semester 1, page 16:
 * Various cases of "otherkin" have been exposed as hoaxes, such as Prince-Koyangi, who was a "transethnic, autistic, pangender, asexual, demiromantic cat" before outing himself.
 * 2015, Iris Robin, "It's not easy being Ace", The Varsity (University of Toronto), Volume 135, Number 18, 9 February 2015:
 * “If I were to be really specific, biromantic is a good approximation gender-wise and either demiromantic or greyromantic [romantic orientations that correspond to demisexual and grey-asexual] captures the weird fuzziness. I’ve started self-describing as biromantic more recently, mostly because I’ve gotten involved in some bi communities. But queer is still usually what I go with,” Queenie explains.

Noun: "(neologism) a person who identifies as demiromantic"

 * 2014, Travis Marmon, "Normative minorities: No love lost", The Wooster Voice (College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio), 19 February 2014:
 * According to AVENwiki (part of the Asexual Visibility and Equality Network), a demiromantic is someone who “only experiences romantic attraction after developing an emotional connection beforehand.”
 * 2014, Zoe Kilbourn, "PSA, UWU: Tumblr, Gender, and Gaga", Pelican (University of Western Australia), Volume 85, Edition 6, circa September 2014, page 9:
 * When you think about the proliferation of “demi” identities - demigirls and -dudes, demiromantics and demisexuals - it seems like these are perfect, if possibly unnecessary and generally unspoken, terms to describe the sort of tentative explorations that most people experience as they mature and continue to experience into adulthood.