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Antonyms for friendship
ˈfrɛnd ʃɪpfriend·ship

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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.8 / 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 WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. friendship, friendly relationshipnoun

    the state of being friends (or friendly)

    Synonyms:
    friendly relationship

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.6 / 5 votes

  1. friendshipnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    amity, intimacy, amicability, friendliness

How to use friendship in a sentence?

  1. Chateaubriand:

    What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

  2. Vanna Bonta:

    If warring is human, then why not declare a new kind of war: A waged War of education, love and friendship to win universal human well-being? I propose a brutal conflict against poverty, disease, ignorance, limitations. Imagine the troops, the regimens, the commanders, the soldiers, the discoveries, the heroes, the life! humanity and our planet, victors.

  3. Narendra Modi:

    Our talks will add further vigour to the India-China friendship.

  4. Nicholson:

    Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.

  5. Mario Puzo:

    Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.

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