Affinitive Orientations (also called Affectional Orientations) is a term used when describing attractions. It is an umbrella for any orientations that describe which gender(s) one is or is not attracted to. It includes terms such as bisexual, pansexual, asexual, lesbian, gay, etc. Affinitive orientations are most commonly associated with sexual and romantic attraction, but the term can be for any forms of attraction. For example, terms like aplatonic or omnialterous are affinitive orientations.
Affinitive orientations can be further broken down into juvelic orientations (terms that references the gender of both parties in attraction) and non-juvelic orientations (terms that only reference the gender of one the parties in attraction).
Affinitive orientations are opposed to amative orientations. Any affinitive orientation can be combined with any amative orientation(s), however two affinitive orientation typically cannot be combined.
History
The term affinitive was coined by Tumblr user Neolabels on January 11, 2019.[1] It was named for having an affinity for a given gender.