Amity vs Comity - What's the difference?
amity | comity |
(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.
Courtesy and considerate behaviour towards others; social harmony.
*1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 96:
*:There, I saw not only flare-ups of ethnic animosity, but the comity that was also possible among men of different backgrounds.
Friendly understanding and mutual recognition between two entities, especially nations.
* Houston Chronicle
As nouns the difference between amity and comity
is that amity is 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 comity is courtesy and considerate behaviour towards others; social harmony.amity
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(amities)Synonyms
* friendliness * friendshipAntonyms
* enmity * hostility * enemyshipExternal links
* * *comity
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(comities)- Democrats took control of the House and Senate after 12 years of nearly unbroken Republican rule, with resolute calls for bipartisan comity and a pledge to move quickly on an agenda of health care, homeland security, education and energy proposals.