Womance

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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