Womance vs Bromance - What's the difference?
womance | bromance | coordinate terms |
(slang) A close but non-sexual relationship between two women.
* 2012 , Sarah Mayberry, Within Reach , Harlequin (2012), ISBN 9780373717958,
* 2013 , Marcia Clark, "Chapter 3", Inherit the Dead , Touchstone (2013), ISBN 9781451684759,
* 2013 , Deborah Ross, "
Bromance is a coordinate term of womance.
As nouns the difference between womance and bromance
is that womance is a close but non-sexual relationship between two women while bromance is a close but non-sexual relationship between two men, a form of homosocial intimacy.womance
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(wikipedia womance) (en noun)page 12:
- “We're having an intense moment of womance here, do you mind?” Billie said.
page 42:
- “Angel goes through BFFs the way Limbaugh goes through oxy. Always has. I give their little 'womance' six months tops before Angel gets tired of her.”
At last, a film about proper women who aren’t just drippily searching for love", The Spectator , 27 July 2013:
- She shares an apartment with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner, daughter of Sting and Trudie Styler; she is terrific), but then Sophie dumps her for a rich boyfriend, and although the two have quite a womance going — ‘We are the same person, but with different hair,’ they tell everybody — we are never quite sure if Sophie is true or not.