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Intimacy vs Brotherhood - What's the difference?

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Intimacy is a related term of brotherhood.


As nouns the difference between intimacy and brotherhood

is that intimacy is feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality while brotherhood is the state of being brothers or a brother.

intimacy

English

Noun

(wikipedia intimacy) (intimacies)
  • feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality
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    Antonyms

    * solitude

    Related terms

    * intimate * intimation

    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

    External links

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