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situationship

nounInformal

A American English slang term. Browse all American slang.

What it means

  1. A romantic involvement that has not been defined and probably will not be — more than friends, less than a relationship, and usually unequally understood by the two people in it.

In use

  • It's not a relationship, it's a situationship.

  • Six months into a situationship and still no answers.

Where it comes from

A blend of situation and relationship. Part of a cluster of 2010s dating coinages — ghosting, breadcrumbing, benching — that name behaviours the apps made common enough to need words for.