thumb|180px|Two men holding hands is a homoaffective act that does not necessarily have a sexual or erotic background. Homoaffectivity is a neologism describing expressions of affection and appreciation between individuals of the same sex. It refers to emotions and feelings that may occur between men or between women, without necessarily implying erotic (homoeroticism) or sexual (homosexuality) connotations. The term is used to distinguish same-sex interactions that carry different implications and contexts. Homoaffectivity has been studied and applied in various fields, including the social s
thumb|180px|Two men holding hands is a homoaffective act that does not necessarily have a sexual or erotic background. Homoaffectivity is a neologism describing expressions of affection and appreciation between individuals of the same sex. It refers to emotions and feelings that may occur between men or between women, without necessarily implying erotic (homoeroticism) or sexual (homosexuality) connotations. The term is used to distinguish same-sex interactions that carry different implications and contexts. Homoaffectivity has been studied and applied in various fields, including the social sciences — particularly psychology and sociology — as well as law, especially family law, literature studies and theology.
== Origin == The first formal studies mentioning homoaffectivity appeared in the early 21st century in the context of analyzing same-sex behavior.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).