relationship - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)

Synonyms

• human relationship
• relationship

More generic

• relation

More specific

• partnership
• personal relation
• personal relationship

Noun

(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption

Synonyms

• family relationship
• kinship
• relationship

More generic

• relation

More specific

• affinity
• birth
• blood kinship
• brotherhood
• cognation
• consanguinity
• descent
• fatherhood
• filiation
• line of descent
• lineage
• marital bed
• marital relationship
• maternity
• motherhood
• parentage
• paternity
• phylogenetic relation
• sisterhood
• sistership

Noun

a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)

Synonyms

• relationship

More generic

• state

More specific

• anaclisis
• love affair
• romance
• sexual relationship

Noun

a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries

Synonyms

• relationship

More generic

• state

More specific

• account
• acquaintance
• acquaintanceship
• affiliation
• assimilation
• association
• business relationship
• friendly relationship
• friendship
• membership
• subjection
• subjugation
• tie
• tie-up

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