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homosociality

homosociality noun: socialization (social interaction, social relationships) with members of the same sex, as distinguished from sexual interaction with or attraction to members of the same sex (homosexuality) and social interaction with members of the opposite sex (heterosociality).

Noun

homosociality (countable and uncountable, plural homosocialities)

  1. Socialization (social interaction, social relationships) with members of the same sex, as distinguished from sexual interaction with or attraction to members of the same sex (homosexuality) and social interaction with members of the opposite sex (heterosociality).
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Antonyms of homosociality

Forms of homosociality

pluralhomosocialities

Origin of homosociality

From homosocial + -ity.

Questions about homosociality

What does homosociality mean?
Homosociality means socialization (social interaction, social relationships) with members of the same sex, as distinguished from sexual interaction with or attraction to members of the same sex (homosexuality) and social interaction with members of the opposite sex (heterosociality).
What part of speech is homosociality?
Homosociality is a noun.
What is the plural of homosociality?
The plural of homosociality is homosocialities.

Words near homosociality in the dictionary

  1. homoskedastic
  2. homoskedasticity
  3. homosocial
  4. homosocialism
  5. homosocialities
  6. homosociality
  7. homosocialization
  8. homosocially
  9. homospecific
  10. homospecificity
  11. homospermic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homosociality (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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