homosociality
noun
homosociality is a noun meaning “Socialization (social interaction, social relationships) with members of the same sex, as distinguished from sexual interaction with or attraction to…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-M-O-S-O-C-I-A-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of homosociality is homosocialities.
What does homosociality mean?
noun
- 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).
For quotations using this term, see Citations:homosociality.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of homosociality
- homosocialities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is homosociality?
Homosociality appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Homosociality in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sociality with members of the same sex:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | homosocialité, homosociabilité |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does homosociality come from?
From homosocial + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).