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Brotherhood vs Brotherliness - What's the difference?

brotherhood | brotherliness |

As nouns the difference between brotherhood and brotherliness

is that brotherhood is the state of being brothers or a brother while brotherliness is the characteristic of being brotherly.

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

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    brotherliness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • the characteristic of being brotherly