The relationship between aromaticity (and antiaromaticity) and underlying electronic structure has long fascinated chemists. There are useful empirical rules -Huckel's for the groundstate and Baird's for the lowest π → π * excited states -but a general unifying definition of aromaticity (and antiaromaticity) remains elusive. Nevertheless, many proposed metrics to quantify it have been suggested in the literature that can be broadly categorized as metrics based on energetic, geometric, or magnetic considerations. We are aware of only one (admittedly unpopular) metric that is directly related to the density matrix via the exchange-correlation density within the context of the Atoms In Molecules model. Despite some agreement with other metrics such as the Nucleus Independent Chemical Shifts (NICS) and Harmonic Oscillator Model of Aromaticity (HOMA), this metric is neither unique nor universal and does not incorporate off-diagonal elements beyond the pair-density description. Aromaticity in benzene, first studied by Kekulé, 84 is familar to every chemist. A less widely known fact is that the first singlet and triplet excited states of a molecule with an aromatic ground state are antiaromatic. Having established a rigorous interpretation of strong correlation based on the cumulant of the 2-RDM, we hypothesize that all antiaromatic systems can be viewed as strongly correlated (though the converse is not true), and that all (unsubstituted) aromatic systems can be viewed as weakly correlated. We will use 2 ∆ quantities to show evidence that supports this hypothesis (though we realize more cases would be helpful). In passing we note that the 2 ∆ has been associated with chemical notions involving long-range entanglements; the squared Frobenius norm was used to quantify the r -6 Van der Waals force. We now compute 2 Γ and 2 ∆ for a 6-electron 6 π-orbital active space employing RHF orbitals, with the knowledge that the inactive orbital space does not contribute to the cumulant. The anti-aromatic character of both the T 1 and S 1 states are well-documented. Table shows the usual set of 2 Γ and 2 ∆-based metrics corresponding to the S 0 ground-state and the vertically-excited S 1 and T 1 states of benzene. The cumulant-based values corresponding to the expected anti-aromatic states are indeed notably larger than those of the ground-state, and the T 1 state is implied to be slightly more strongly correlated than S 1 .