A romantic gray area where you’re more than friends but not officially dating. Named after Pluto’s “almost a planet” status — close enough to count, but never quite official.
First coined by author Deepti Jethani in 2025.
We hang out every weekend, text all day, and even met each other’s families, but he says we’re not dating. I guess we’re in a Plutonic Relationship.
when you're in a relationship with someone but you don't have any "love" feelings for each other.
me: "parker and I are in a platonic relationship"
person: "so...... you're friends?"
me: "no we're in a relationship, it's the same as a "normal" romantic relationship, just with fewer feelings. Our attraction is somewhere in between friendship feelings and love feelings."
Another term for a platonic relationship is a queerplatonic relationship.
Random dude: This woman and I are in a platonic relationship.
Plato: And what does platonic mean?
Random dude: It means we don't have sex.
Plato: What the fuck?
A Queer Platonic Relationship or a QPR is a relationship that is neither inherently sexual, romantic or platonic, and was created by and for A-spec people (those with nonexisting to limited sexual/romantic attraction). Allosexuals/Alloromantics may also participate.
One in a QPR may do the following ;
- Kiss/ Not Kiss
-Hold hands/ Never hold hands
- Cuddle/ not cuddle
- Have kids/ Not have kids
- Live together/ Live seperatly
- marry/ not marry
- fuck/ not fuck
Baisically a list of checkboxes and custom made.
Quinn ; Why is she holding her hand? Is she gay?
Alice ; No they are just partners and signficant others.
Quinn ; Isn't that the same thing?
Alice ; No those terms can either refer to a romantic relationship or someone your in a Queer Platonic Relationship with.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)