Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. immunology that reacts only with a specific antigen
- adj. pertaining to homophiles or homophilia
Examples
“Those that remain are about as racy as a gooseberry pie, but in Jane's descriptions of dressmaking, or of ladies 'bare shoulders at a party, Castle discerns a "kind of homophilic fascination" with women.”
“In much earlier days Atticus had developed the discipline never to indulge his taste for boys anywhere save in homophilic Athens, where he had built a mansion and been very good to the city over the years.”
“(Greenberg, 1988, 260) Even while some Christian theologians continued to denounce nonprocreative sexuality, including same-sex acts, a genre of homophilic literature, especially among the clergy, developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries (Boswell, 1980, chapters 8 and 9).”
“I was listening, bemused -- when did they all get so homophilic?”
“But from the recurringly dismal vote totals for “progressive” candidates, most of you voted for the Democrat, not for the pure-hearted homophilic progressive candidates.”
“Sure enough, those who relied on a tight cluster of homophilic contacts received more novel information per unit of time.”
“If they didn't have the range and wit of Pet Shop Boys, the other major homophilic synth-pop duo of their era, they had all the hooks anyone could ask for, and they damn sure had a flashier singer -- even minor singles like "You Surround Me" let Bell show off his post-Boy George soul chops and stratospheric falsetto.”
“Even priding yourself on being open-minded is no defence if your natural, homophilic inclination is to hang out with other people like you, celebrating your love of diversity.”
“Moreover, Caps-mediated PN dendrite targeting was independent of presynaptic ORNs and did not involve homophilic interactions.”
“Because (and here I make the first and only value claim in this essay) whatever one's opinion of homophilic homosexuals might be, the behaviors associated with the pederastic/dominating classical style are entangled with abuse and degradation in a way that can only be described as evil.”
Lists
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sameness
those homos.
(and those homeos too)homosexual, homozygous, homeotic, homeostatic, homologous, homeologous, homogeneous, homomorphic, homophilic, homonym, homophonous, homosynaptic and 6 more...
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Factory Joe's Dictionary
The favorite and phantasmagorical word pickings of Chris Messina.
transmogrification, placelessness, surreal, believe, ambidextrous, brinkmanship, utter, sasquatch, serendipitous, opinion, ayatollah, skirmish and 66 more...
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