sororidad
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Etymology edit
From Renaissance Late Latin sorōritātem, from Latin soror (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Akin to Portuguese sororidade, French sororité, English sorority.
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Noun edit
sororidad f (plural sororidades)
- (feminism) sisterhood (the idea of universal experience amongst women, regardless of other traits or factors)
- (US) sorority
- a female fraternity; a sisterhood (a fraternal group composed exclusively of females)
- a social organization of female students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters
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Further reading edit
- “sororidad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014