homophily
C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The tendency of people to associate with others similar to themselves.
Unchecked homophily in referral hiring had produced a workforce drawn from the same three universities.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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