Friendship

n.	1.	The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. - Bacon. There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. - Rambler. Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency. - Spenser.
	2.	Kindly aid; help; assistance, Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest. - Shak.
	3.	Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence. Those colors . . . have a friendship with each other. - Dryden.

Noun

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friendship - the state of being friends Synonyms: friendly relationship

accord, affection, affinity, alliance, amiability, amicability, amity, attachment, attraction, benevolence, brotherhood, closeness, coalition, comity, companionability, concord, congeniality, consonance, conviviality, devotion, empathy, esteem, federation, fondness, friendliness, fusion, harmony, kindliness, league, love, rapport, sisterhood, sociability, warmth

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