Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The tendency of individuals to associate with others of the same kind
Examples
“HOMOPHILY BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER The term homophily stems from study of social networks.”
“Uniting disparate groups on a single Internet service runs counter to 50 years of research by sociologists into what is known as 'homophily' -- the tendency of individuals to associate only with like-minded people of similar age and ethnicity.”
“She points to studies undertaken by researchers at the University of New Hampshire and elsewhere that suggests "homophily" -- the principle that people naturally favor others like them -- may play a major role in early-stage funding.”
“Sociologists call this phenomenon of being affected by one's friends "homophily" -- the tendency to associate with people similar to you and the people you associate with tend to act like you over time (and vice-versa).”
Auren Hoffman: You Think For Yourself but You Act Like Your Friends (on homophily)
“From communication research we know it comes from credibility defined largely by expertise, trust, conviction, comfort and something called homophily (perceived similarity).”
Kathleen Reardon: Barack Obama -- More Presidential By The Day
“People, we worry, spend too much of their time seeking out like-minded peers a phenomenon called homophily and thus encounter only news and opinions that reinforce what they already believe.”
“From communication research we know it comes from credibility defined largely by expertise, trust, conviction, comfort and something called homophily”
“As Metzger explains, "The early thought on social networks was that people would self-select -- so-called 'homophily' -- but evidence now suggests that in seeking political information, it works the other way around.”
“His whole insult shtick is based on the other posters being cliquish (a word that a lot more adults use than "homophily", which actually has a derisively small number of Google hits) and immature.”
SurveyUSA: Hillary Ahead By 18 Points In Pennsylvania Primary
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘homophily’.
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Logophily: Words with "phil"
List of words containing the string phil-, -phil-, -phil, or -phile, such as philopatry, bibliophile, and neutrophil.
Greek: φιλία/φίλος, φιλια-/φιλο - love, loving, love of, fondness for, at...philopatry, bibliophile, neutrophil, thalassophily, stegophilist, philoxeny, psychrophile, logophily, photophilia, photophilous, heliophilous, philornithic and 148 more...
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Words next
patrimony, cacophony, fearsome, coruscating, coruscating, coruscating, dolomite, dolorous, transdermal, chatty cathy, chatterbox, incessantly and 249 more...
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Definitions
Esoteric words for me
pleroma, syzygy, antanaclasis, Therapeutae, Essenes, arcane, germane, apposite, conurbation, sinecure, antiphonal, coenobite and 159 more...
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Random Reading
Words I stumbled across.
consociational, flashterbation, lawyered up, fertigation, poblano, boi, andro, all rooty, chronophage, floater season, make dials, d-day dodger and 50 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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College Reading Words
words i find in my reading at college
empirical, caprice, telos, insofar, bedeviled, nihilism, confound, nomenclature, negate, hegemony, ebb, homophily and 35 more...
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nikhilbd's Words
hemidemisemiquaver, homophily, ripsnorter, apocryphal, floccinaucinihili..., esoteric, soliloquy, lassitude, taurodont, occlusion, aa, aardvark and 3 more...
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concepts
not so much an adoration of the words as the fascination with the meanings they convey. Some of the words are quite nice, though.
repudiation, adiaphora, homophily, equipoise, samsara, fecundity, ostentation
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magnetbox's Words
Tweets
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reesetee Nice article. Thanks for posting, John. Feb 18, 2009
john “The faintly depressing human tendency to seek out and spend time with those most similar to us is known in social science as "homophily", and it shapes our views, and our lives, in ways we're barely aware of.�?
The Guardian, This column will change your life, by Oliver Burkeman, January 31, 2009 Feb 18, 2009