homosocialityn.
/ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˌsəʊʃɪˈalᵻti/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˌsəʊʃɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌhoʊməˌsoʊʃiˈælədi/, /ˌhoʊmoʊˌsoʊʃiˈælədi/ Chiefly Psychology and Sociology.
Social interaction between members of the same sex (esp. men); the state, fact, or quality of being homosocial.
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1927 J. C. Flügel in Brit. Jrnl. Med. Psychol. 7 148 Homosociality is apt to be freer up to a certain point than heterosociality, because there is less fear of the irruption of sexuality.
1948 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 53 316 Though male homosociality is more pervasive than female homosociality, the latter passes more readily into homosexuality.
1975 Sociol. Q. 16 136/2 The authors..assess the effect of adolescent patterns of homosociality rather than heterosociality.
2009 S. E. Chinn Inventing Mod. Adolescence iv. 114 As was typical of the combined hetero- and homosociality of such events, ‘Joe came without any lady friend, and Annie came with a bevy of other girls.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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