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Affiliation vs Brotherhood - What's the difference?

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Affiliation is a related term of brotherhood.


As nouns the difference between affiliation and brotherhood

is that affiliation is the relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another while brotherhood is the state of being brothers or a brother.

affiliation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another.
  • A club, society or umbrella organisation so formed, especially a trade union.
  • brotherhood

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of being brothers or a brother.
  • An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
  • The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
  • Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
  • A brotherhood of venerable trees. - .

    Hypernyms

    *siblinghood

    Synonyms

    * fraternity, association, fellowship, sodality, brethren

    See also

    * sisterhood