homosocial
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- adjective
- /ˌhoʊməˈsoʊʃəl/
- Specialized
- The boys often spent their weekends in a homosocial environment, bonding over sports and video games.
- homosocial bonds
- homosocial comedy
- homosocial bonding
Examples
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Throughout the remainder of the play, bonds of homosocial friendship serve to consolidate relations among the aristocratic male characters.
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Such juvenile homosocial bonding frees the boys from adults who threaten their childhood.
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But neither action is completely free of the homosocial desire of the barracks.
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Its consequences included the transoceanic separation of families and the development of a largely homosocial culture in the United States.
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Homosocial comedies present a dynamic that clearly favors the homosocial bond as the primary emotional relationship, as we have seen.
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Rizal takes up this homosocial relationship more fully in Fili when Basilio and Ibarra meet once again.
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In this context, "Lady" Wisdom is an agenda, an alien presence that threatens to unhinge the homosocial order of sages.
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Crucial to Rizal's conception of Filipino ethnicity were the homosocial societies that informed his ilustrado (educated elite) homosociality.
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As the title Ganar amigos predicts, Ruiz de Alarcn's homosocial comedy foregrounds the power of homosocial bonds to overshadow and replace heterosexual bonds.
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The fraternity hosted several events that reinforced their homosocial culture, focusing on friendship and camaraderie among the members.
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Etymology
Homosocial joins the Greek root homo- meaning 'same' and the English word social meaning 'about people and friendships'. So, it literally means social life with people of the same gender, which is why we use it for groups or places where people mix mainly with their own gender, not for romantic or sexual relationships.