Homophily () is a concept in sociology describing the tendency of individuals to associate and bond with similar others, as in the proverb "". The presence of homophily has been discovered in a vast array of network studies: over have observed homophily in some form or another, and they establish that similarity is associated with connection. The categories on which homophily occurs include age, gender, class, and organizational role.
同质偏好（英語：Homophily）指个体更倾向于与他们相似的人交往和建立链结（即“物以类聚，人以群分”）。不少社会网络分析研究都观察到了某种形式的同质性，并指出“相似”与”产生联系“有关。同质性可以存在于年龄、性别、阶层等分类间。同质个体间相似的特质（如信念、價值觀、教育等）让他们更容易交流并建立关系。与同质性相对立的概念是。
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).