GLOSSARY

Deeply single:

A state of perceiving the benefits of aloneness and being single—of traveling, going out, going to movies alone.

Perkytogethers:

Ahhh, the perkytogethers—the quirkyalone's natural opposite. While there are many people whom quirkyalones can respectfully recognize as not sharing their worldview, perkytogethers impose coupledom on everyone. They are the tyranny of coupledom.

Pseudo-quirky:

One who tries to cultivate an air of difference for a charm factor.

Quirky:

Goofy, zany, offbeat; unintentionally different, without artifice; possessing the courage to be yourself whether it's popular or not.

Quirkyslut:

One who maintains high standards for a romantic relationship, but becomes more flexible for the Saturday (or even Tuesday) night encounter.

Quirkytogether:

The state of being that results when a quirkyalone enters a long-term romantic relationship.

Q-A-dar:

The uncanny ability to spot other quirkyalones in a crowd.

Spinster:

A term which once described every unmarried woman, regardless of age, "spinster" gradually the label came to describe only ladies who never married (women who continued to spin). Those who would like to reclaim this term should buy them selves a really nice set of high-count sheets.

Too-quirky-for-their-own-good:

People who feel that they are too distinctive to adopt a label.

Tyranny-of-coupledom:

The prevailing brainwash that one should constantly be or aspire to be in a long-term relationship, that being single is always inferior to being in a relationship, and that romantic relationships provide the key to happiness.