homosocial

/ ˌhəʊməʊˌsəʊʃɪˈælɪtɪ; ˌhəʊməʊˈsəʊʃəl /

adjective

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

Derived Forms

• homosociality, noun

Example Sentences

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.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

It's the Marriage Plot without the marriage, because it's homosocial.

From Salon

I was amused by how much overlap there was by this supposedly homosocial, sacred, straight male space and the gay space.

From Salon

"I was amused by how much overlap there was by this supposedly homosocial, sacred, straight male space and the gay space . . . Neither space is interested in addressing intimacy."

From Salon