| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, acquaintanceship, affiliation, agreement, assistance, camaraderie, companionship, comradeship, conjunction, cooperation, familiarity, fellowship, fraternization, frequenting, friendliness, hookup, intimacy, membership, participation, partnership, relation, relationship |
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aloneness, antagonism, disunion, isolation, opposition, rivalry, seclusion, separation, solitude |
| Main Entry: | awareness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, acquaintanceship, alertness, aliveness, appreciation, apprehension, attention, attentiveness, bodhi, cognizance, comprehension, consciousness, discernment, enlightenment, experience, familiarity, information, keenness, mindfulness, perception, realization, recognition, sensibility, sentience, understanding |
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ignorance, insensitivity, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | familiarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, acquaintanceship, boldness, closeness, ease, fellowship, forwardness, freedom, freshness, friendship, informality, intimacy, liberty, naturalness, openness, presumption, sociability, unceremoniousness |
Antonyms: |
aloofness, cool, distance, frigidity, reserve, unfriendliness |
| Main Entry: | friendship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | companionship |
Synonyms: |
accord, acquaintanceship, affection, affinity, agreement, alliance, amiability, amicability, amity, association, attachment, attraction, benevolence, closeness, coalition, comity, company, concord, consideration, consonance, devotion, empathy, esteem, familiarity, favor, favoritism, fondness, friendliness, fusion, good will, harmony, intimacy, league, love, pact, partiality, rapport, regard, sociability, society, sodality, solidarity, understanding |
Antonyms: |
enmity, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
a-gatewards, affiliated, allied to, allusive, approximating, approximative, appurtenant to, associated, banded together, belonging to, bonded together, catenated, chainlike, cognate, commensal, comparable, confederated, connected, contubernial, correlative, dowelling, embattled, factional, federative, ginglymoid, implicated, in alliance, in common with, in league, in partnership, in relation with, in the same category, interlaced, joint, ligulate, like, linked together, obvolute, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, referable to, related, relating, relative, relative to, relevant
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| Concept: | Friendship. |
| Category: | 1. Social Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
friendship, amity; friendliness; brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity; harmony (concord); peace., firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar bosom friendship, cordial friendship; tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship., cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale, good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness., affection (love); favoritism; good will (benevolence)., acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge of; introduction.
-verbs
be friendly, be friends [more], be acquainted with adj.; know; have the ear of; keep company with (sociality); hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will (benevolent); love; make much of; befriend (aid); introduce to., set one's horses together; have the latchstring out [U. S.]; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly; make friends with; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor, gain the friendship of., shake hands with, fraternize, embrace; receive with open arms, throw oneself into the arms of; meet halfway, take in good part.
-adjectives
friendly; amicable, amical; well-affected, unhostile, neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warmhearted., friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with; on good terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing; on speaking terms, on visiting terms; in one's good graces, in one's good books., acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy; welcome.
-adverbs
amicably; with open arms; sans ceremonie; arm in arm.
-phrases
amicitia semper prodest [Seneca]; "a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one" [Carlyle]; "friendship is love without either flowers or veil" [Hare]; trulgus
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Antonyms: |
enmity |
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