Amity vs Brotherhood - What's the difference?
amity | brotherhood | Synonyms |
(formal, literary) friendship. The cooperative and supportive relationship between people, or animals. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis.
* 1922': To my native place / Bent upon returning, / Bosom all day burning / To be where my race / Well were known, 'twas much with me / There to dwell in '''amity . — Thomas Hardy, 'Welcome Home,' in ''Lyrics Late and Earlier, 1922
Mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship, especially between nations; peace; accord.
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.
Amity is a synonym of brotherhood.
As nouns the difference between amity and brotherhood
is that amity is (formal|literary) friendship the cooperative and supportive relationship between people, or animals in this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis while brotherhood is the state of being brothers or a brother.amity
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Noun
(amities)Synonyms
* friendliness * friendshipAntonyms
* enmity * hostility * enemyshipExternal links
* * *brotherhood
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- A brotherhood of venerable trees. - .
