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| Main Entry: | friendship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | companionship |
| Synonyms: | accord, affection, affinity, agreement, alliance, amity, association, attachment, attraction, benevolence, closeness, coalition, company, concord, consideration, consonance, devotion, empathy, esteem, familiarity, favor, favoritism, fondness, friendliness, fusion, good will, harmony, intimacy, league, love, pact, partiality, rapport, regard, society, sodality, solidarity, understanding, acquaintanceship, amiability, amicability, comity, sociability |
| Antonyms: | enmity, hate, hatred |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
friendship, amity; friendliness; brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity; harmony (concord) [more]; peace [more]., 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) [more]; favoritism; good will (benevolence) [more]., 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) [more]; hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will (benevolent) [more]; love [more]; make much of; befriend (aid) [more]; 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 [more] 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 |
| Main Entry: | affection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong fondness |
| Synonyms: | ardor, attachment, care, case*, closeness, concern, crush, desire, devotion, emotion, endearment, feeling, friendliness, friendship, good will, hankering*, heart, inclination, itch*, kindness, liking, love, passion, predilection, propensity, puppy love*, regard, sentiment, shine*, soft spot*, solicitude, tenderness, warmth, weakness*, yen*, amore |
| Antonyms: | animosity, antipathy, dislike, enmity, hate, hatred, ill will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | alliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendly association, agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, affiliation, affinity, betrothal, bond, coalition, coherence, collaboration, collusion, combination, communion, compact, concord, concurrence, confederacy, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, friendship, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union, confederation, fraternization, interrelation, mutuality |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, discord, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war, disunion |
| Main Entry: | benevolence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charity |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, compassion, feeling, friendliness, friendship, generosity, gift, good will, goodness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy, comity |
| Antonyms: | animosity, ill will, malevolence, meanness, selfishness, spite, greediness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | friendliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | companionability |
| Synonyms: | amity, benevolence, camaraderie, conviviality, cordiality, friendship, geniality, goodwill, kindness, warmth, affability, amiability, comity, comradery, congeniality, kindliness, neighborliness, open arms, sociability |
| Antonyms: | incompatibility, aloofness, coldness |
| Main Entry: | good will/goodwill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindliness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, benevolence, brownie points*, charity, cordiality, favor, friendliness, friendship, generosity, good deed, helpfulness, rapport, sympathy, tolerance, comity, good side of, right side of |
| Antonyms: | meanness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intimacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closeness between people |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affection, affinity, communion, confidence, experience, familiarity, friendship, understanding, close relationship, confidentiality, inwardness |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, incompatibility |
| Main Entry: | partnership |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alliance; participation |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, assistance, association, band, body, brotherhood, business, cahoots*, cartel, clique, club, combination, combine, community, companionship, company, conglomerate, conjunction, connection, cooperation, cooperative, corporation, coterie, crew, faction, firm, fraternity, friendship, gang, help, house, interest, lodge, mob, organization, ownership, party, ring, sharing, sisterhood, society, sorority, togetherness, union, chumminess, consociation, hookup, joining, tie-up |
| Notes: | a corporation is the name used in the United States for a business association established by one or more people who later sell shares in the corporation to investors; in a partnership, there are one or more owners who share jointly in the profits, liability |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rapprochement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restoration of harmony |
| Synonyms: | agreement, cordiality, detente, friendliness, friendship, harmony, reconciliation, reunion, softening, harmonization, reconcilement |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, trouble, upset |
| Main Entry: | good will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindliness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, benevolence, brownie points, charity, cordiality, favor, friendliness, friendship, generosity, good deed, goodwill, helpfulness, kindness, rapport, sympathy, tolerance, comity |
| Main Entry: | tenderness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affection |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, courtesy, fondness, friendship, gentleness, kindness, love, sympathy, warmth, lovingness, softheartedness |
| Antonyms: | animosity, hatred, hostility, ill will, ruthlessness |
| Main Entry: | togetherness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affectionate closeness |
| Synonyms: | affection, closeness, fellowship, friendship, intimacy, close feeling, inseparableness, warm fellowship |
| Antonyms: | disaffection, discord, estrangement, unfriendliness |
| Main Entry: | concord |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unity, harmony |
| Synonyms: | accord, agreement, amity, calmness, chime, concert, consensus, consonance, friendship, goodwill, peace, rapport, serenity, tranquility, tune, understanding, unison, comity, concordance, placidity, unanimity |
| Antonyms: | discord, disunity |
| Main Entry: | familiarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, boldness, closeness, ease, fellowship, forwardness, freedom, freshness, friendship, intimacy, liberty, presumption, acquaintanceship, informality, naturalness, openness, sociability, unceremoniousness |
| Antonyms: | cool, distance, frigidity, reserve, aloofness, unfriendliness |
| Main Entry: | harmony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, affinity, amity, compatibility, concord, conformity, consensus, consistency, cooperation, correspondence, empathy, friendship, good will, kinship, peace, rapport, sympathy, tranquility, understanding, unity, amicability, like-mindedness, meeting of minds, unanimity |
| Antonyms: | clash, disagreement, discord, fighting |
| Main Entry: | love |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adoration; very strong liking |
| Synonyms: | adulation, affection, allegiance, amity, amour, appreciation, ardor, attachment, case*, crush, delight, devotion, emotion, enchantment, enjoyment, fervor, fidelity, flame, fondness, friendship, hankering, idolatry, inclination, infatuation, involvement, like, lust, partiality, passion, piety, rapture, regard, relish, respect, sentiment, soft spot*, taste, tenderness, weakness, worship, yearning, zeal, amorousness, ardency, cherishing, devotedness, mad for |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | peace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmony, agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, amity, armistice, cessation, concord, friendship, love, neutrality, order, reconciliation, treaty, truce, union, unity, conciliation, pacification, pacifism, unanimity |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, disharmony, fighting, war |
| Main Entry: | society |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humankind, people |
| Synonyms: | association, camaraderie, civilization, commonwealth, community, companionship, company, culture, friendship, humanity, jungle*, nation, population, public, rat race*, world, zoo, commonality, comradeship, general public, social order |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bond |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, relation |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, attachment, connection, friendship, liaison, link, marriage, network, obligation, relationship, restraint, tie, union, connective, hookup, interrelationship, tie-in |
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