homosocial

/ ˌhəʊməʊˌsəʊʃɪˈælɪtɪ, ˌhəʊməʊˈsəʊʃəl /

adjective

1. relating to or denoting same-sex social relationships Compare heterosocial

Other Word Forms

• homosociality noun

Example Sentences

The show explores the late-19th century artist’s homosocial themes, distinctive for Impressionism, whose common human subjects were typically women and girls.

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Certainly, however, Caillebotte was homosocial.

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Among the many benefits of feminist scholarship and its focus on the complex nature of identity has been the subsequent study of homosocial experience.

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More subtle and intriguing are Nichols’s efforts to capture the power of Lyon’s photos which — with their dynamic mixture of pictorial beauty and thematic grit, hyper-masculinity and homosocial intimacy — tell a specific 20th-century American story of being and belonging.

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But everyone else is content to lounge in the cognitive dissonance of the blurry boundaries of their homosocial intimacy rituals.

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