homosocial

Adjective

homosocial (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to homosociality, to social interaction with the same sex.
   • In practice, however, the line between heterosocial and heterosexual relationships is rarely seen as rigid and impenetrable. Instead, male-female friendships are often seen — by others if not by the participants — as having sexual and romantic potential. In contrast, much social effort goes into...2003, Barbara J. Bank, Contradictions in Women's Education, →ISBN, page 111
   • Even at its most intense, though, such ‘homosocial’ friendship, both in fiction and in reality, was meant to be distinguished from homosexual acts and tendencies.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 129