| 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 |
| Concept: | Friendship. |
| Category: | 1. Social Affections |
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-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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| Main Entry: | affection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong fondness |
Synonyms: |
amore, 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* |
Antonyms: |
animosity, antipathy, dislike, enmity, hate, hatred, ill will |
| 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, confederation, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, fraternization, friendship, interrelation, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, mutuality, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union |
Antonyms: |
antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war |
| Main Entry: | attachment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affection, high regard |
Synonyms: |
affinity, amore, attraction, bond, case, crush, devotion, fidelity, fondness, friendship, hankering*, liking, love, loyalty, partiality, possessiveness, regard, shine*, tenderness, weakness, yen* |
Antonyms: |
alienation, animosity, aversion, dislike, divorce, enmity, estrangement, hate, hatred, opposition |
| Main Entry: | benevolence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charity |
Synonyms: |
altruism, amity, comity, compassion, feeling, friendliness, friendship, generosity, gift, good will, goodness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy |
Antonyms: |
animosity, greediness, ill will, malevolence, meanness, selfishness, spite, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | bond |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, relation |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, affinity, attachment, connection, connective, friendship, hookup, interrelationship, liaison, link, marriage, network, obligation, relationship, restraint, tie, tie-in, union |
| Main Entry: | concord |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unity, harmony |
Synonyms: |
accord, agreement, amity, calmness, chime, comity, concert, concordance, consensus, consonance, friendship, goodwill, peace, placidity, rapport, serenity, tranquility, tune, unanimity, understanding, unison |
Antonyms: |
discord, disunity |
| 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: | friendliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | companionability |
Synonyms: |
affability, amiability, amity, benevolence, camaraderie, comity, comradery, congeniality, conviviality, cordiality, friendship, geniality, goodwill, kindliness, kindness, neighborliness, open arms, sociability, warmth |
Antonyms: |
aloofness, coldness, incompatibility |