Womance

"Girl crush" redirects here. For the Little Big Town song, see Girl Crush.

Relationships
(Outline)
Types
Genetic or adoptive
By marriage
Partner(s)
Intimate and sexual
Activities
Endings
Emotions and feelings
Practices
Abuse

A womance is a close but non-sexual, non-romantic relationship between two or more women.[1][2][3][4][5][6] It is an exceptionally tight affectional, homosocial female bonding relationship exceeding that of usual friendship, and is distinguished by a particularly high level of emotional intimacy.

The word womance is a portmanteau of the words woman and romance.[7] The emergence of the terms bromance and womance has been seen as reflecting increased relationship-seeking as a modern behavior.[6] Although womance is sometimes seen as the female flip side of bromance,[8][9] some have seen different nuances in the social construction of the two concepts.[1][2][10] Hammarén sees "different values assigned to male and female friendships"[further explanation needed] and a dissimilarity in the "underlying power relation between the concepts",[2][further explanation needed] and Winch has asserted several differences in the social construction.[1][further explanation needed]

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