Synonyms for Friendship
ˈfrɛnd ʃɪpfriend·ship

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.8 / 8 votes

1. friendship

   Friendship is a deep, quiet, enduring affection, founded upon mutual respect and esteem. Friendship is always mutual; there may be unreciprocated affection or attachment, unrequited love, or even unrecognized and unappreciated devotion, but never unreciprocated or unrequited friendship; one may have friendly feelings toward an enemy, but while there is hostility or coldness on one side there can not be friendship between the two. Friendliness is a quality of friendly feeling, without the deep and settled attachment implied in the state of friendship. Comity is mutual kindly courtesy, with care of each other's right, and amity a friendly feeling and relation, not necessarily implying special friendliness; as, the comity of nations, or amity between neighboring countries. Affection may be purely natural; friendship is a growth. Friendship is more intellectual and less emotional than love; it is easier to give reasons for friendship than for love; friendship is more calm and quiet, love more fervent; love often rises to intensest passion; we can not speak of the passion of friendship. Friendship implies some degree of equality, while love does not; we can speak of man's love toward God, not of his friendship for God. (There is more latitude in the use of the concrete noun friend; Abraham was called "the friend of God;" Christ was called "the friend of sinners.") Compare ACQUAINTANCE; LOVE.

   See synonyms for BATTLE; ENMITY; FEUD; HATRED.

   Synonyms:
   affection, amity, attachment, comity, consideration, devotion, esteem, esteem, favor, friendliness, good will, love, regard

   Preposition:
   The friendship of one person for or toward another, or the friendship between them.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. friendship, friendly relationshipnoun

   the state of being friends (or friendly)

   Synonyms:
   friendly relationship, friendship

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. a long conflictnoun

   Submitted by iservin0010 on February 26, 2024  

2. mateship

   mates are friends

   Submitted by anonymous on February 17, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. friendshipnoun

   Synonyms:
   friendliness, amity, amicableness, fellowship, attachment, intimacy

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.6 / 5 votes

1. friendshipnoun

   Synonyms:
   amity, intimacy, amicability, friendliness

   Antonyms:
   enmity, estrangement, alienation, disaffection, hostility, aloofness

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "friendship":

   friendly, amity, amistad, goodwill, good-will, friendliness

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1. Louis Maman:

   You can understand for geopolitical reasons Australia getting closer to other anglophone countries like the United States and Britain, but there was a real contract and I think there was an alliance and a friendship between Australia and France. It’s spoiling a friendship.

2. Stephanie Putri Fajar:

   We gave them( Haruka Nakagawa and Yukari Sasou) a platform to portray the active life of the youth who lose ions( sweat) through a lighthearted six-part friendship and adventure series on YouTube called' Onigiri The Series,'.

3. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi:

   We have told the Egyptians that friendship is a precious thing and is only possible if there is truth.

4. Stefanie Powers:

   I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

5. Gwyneth Paltrow:

   Ben Platt and Jessica Lange have such a strong friendship and deep knowledge of the other, so it was very easy, i can be very impatient with acting these days, and Ben Platt was really good at wrangling that impatient side.