Companionship
noun
The feeling or condition of having a friend or friends with whom one spends time.
She valued the companionship of her best friend, Jo.
Often appears as...
- seek companionship
- enjoy companionship
noun
The act of being together with someone in order to stop feeling lonely.
After his wife died, he missed her companionship a lot.
Often appears as...
- miss companionship
- crave companionship
noun
A relationship between people or things that work or act together or spend a lot of time with each other.
The dog's companionship was a great comfort to its owner.
Often appears as...
- companionship between animals
- companionship between dogs and humans
noun
The feeling or condition of having a friend or friends with whom one spends time.
She valued the companionship of her best friend, Jo.
Often appears as...
- seek companionship
- enjoy companionship
noun
The act of being together with someone in order to stop feeling lonely.
After his wife died, he missed her companionship a lot.
Often appears as...
- miss companionship
- crave companionship
noun
A relationship between people or things that work or act together or spend a lot of time with each other.
The dog's companionship was a great comfort to its owner.
Often appears as...
- companionship between animals
- companionship between dogs and humans
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Pro Tip 1/3Spend Time Together
Companionship emphasizes spending time and sharing experiences with friends.
They found companionship in their weekly chess games.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Support
Companionship often implies emotional support and mutual understanding among friends.
During tough times, his companionship helped her cope.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Acquaintance
Companionship is deeper than just knowing someone; it involves a closer friend.
Her companionship with Pat grew into a lifelong friendship.
Pro Tip 1/3Spend Time Together
Companionship emphasizes spending time and sharing experiences with friends.
They found companionship in their weekly chess games.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Support
Companionship often implies emotional support and mutual understanding among friends.
During tough times, his companionship helped her cope.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Acquaintance
Companionship is deeper than just knowing someone; it involves a closer friend.
Her companionship with Pat grew into a lifelong friendship.
Pro Tip 1/3Spend Time Together
Companionship emphasizes spending time and sharing experiences with friends.
They found companionship in their weekly chess games.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Support
Companionship often implies emotional support and mutual understanding among friends.
During tough times, his companionship helped her cope.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Acquaintance
Companionship is deeper than just knowing someone; it involves a closer friend.
Her companionship with Pat grew into a lifelong friendship.
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Why we have an emotional...
and we trained them for work and weaponry and companionship. And throughout history, we've treated some animals like tools or like products, and other animals, we've treated with kindness and we've given a place in society as our companions. I think it's plausible we might start to integrate robots in similar ways.
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The history of marriage...
they were way too important to depend on young love. Especially among the upperclasses, matches were often made by families or rulers. But even for commoners, who had some degree of choice, the main concern was practicality. The modern idea of marriage as being mainly about love and companionship
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Technology hasn't...
and somebody who they find physically attractive. That never changes. And there's certainly -- you know, there's two parts -- But you know how I call that? That's not what people used to say -- That's exactly right. They said they wanted somebody with whom they have companionship,
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Can machines read your...
There are plenty of beneficial uses for computerized emotion recognition. Robots using algorithms to identify facial expressions can help children learn or provide lonely people with a sense of companionship. Social media companies are considering using algorithms
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The secret to desire in...
or what we today like to call a passionate marriage, used to be a contradiction in terms. Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship.
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Making sense of...
explosion of a white dwarf star this white dwarf has lived in a companionship with another larger star and has been pulling material off the star feeding itself until it can't resist the crush of its own gravity and it explodes often
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Connected, but alone? PIPE...
where we are most vulnerable. And we are vulnerable. We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship
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Sex Addiction PIPE Taboo
online for companionship but all she found were men who wanted sex so I started not caring about the relationship part of it and just started meeting just random men the search for sex quickly became addictive
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Connected, but alone? -...
we're afraid of intimacy and so from social networks to sociable robots we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship we turn to
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To future generations of...
there's just a discovery of freedom, of common sense, of companionship. Is there, of all the things in your life,
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Why we have an emotional...
and we trained them for work and weaponry and companionship. And throughout history, we've treated some animals like tools or like products, and other animals, we've treated with kindness and we've given a place in society as our companions. I think it's plausible we might start to integrate robots in similar ways.
Video examples
The history of marriage...
they were way too important to depend on young love. Especially among the upperclasses, matches were often made by families or rulers. But even for commoners, who had some degree of choice, the main concern was practicality. The modern idea of marriage as being mainly about love and companionship
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Technology hasn't...
and somebody who they find physically attractive. That never changes. And there's certainly -- you know, there's two parts -- But you know how I call that? That's not what people used to say -- That's exactly right. They said they wanted somebody with whom they have companionship,
Video examples
Can machines read your...
There are plenty of beneficial uses for computerized emotion recognition. Robots using algorithms to identify facial expressions can help children learn or provide lonely people with a sense of companionship. Social media companies are considering using algorithms
Video examples
The secret to desire in...
or what we today like to call a passionate marriage, used to be a contradiction in terms. Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship.
Video examples
Making sense of...
explosion of a white dwarf star this white dwarf has lived in a companionship with another larger star and has been pulling material off the star feeding itself until it can't resist the crush of its own gravity and it explodes often
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Connected, but alone? PIPE...
where we are most vulnerable. And we are vulnerable. We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship
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Sex Addiction PIPE Taboo
online for companionship but all she found were men who wanted sex so I started not caring about the relationship part of it and just started meeting just random men the search for sex quickly became addictive
Video examples
Connected, but alone? -...
we're afraid of intimacy and so from social networks to sociable robots we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship we turn to
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To future generations of...
there's just a discovery of freedom, of common sense, of companionship. Is there, of all the things in your life,
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Julia Cameron
American Author
I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.
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Sherwin B. Nuland
American Scientist
Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed or otherwise alone; too many live in surroundings where they are essentially without the companionship necessary to stimulate a mind in danger of deteriorating.
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Joyce Carol Oates
American Novelist
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.
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Russell Crowe
Australian Actor
Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
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James Cronin
American Physicist
On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.
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Amelia Earhart
American Aviator
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
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Jacqueline McKenzie
Australian Actress
I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product.
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Woodrow Wilson
American President
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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William James
American Philosopher
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
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Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Julia Cameron
American Author
I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.
Quote examples
Sherwin B. Nuland
American Scientist
Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed or otherwise alone; too many live in surroundings where they are essentially without the companionship necessary to stimulate a mind in danger of deteriorating.
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Joyce Carol Oates
American Novelist
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.
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Russell Crowe
Australian Actor
Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
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James Cronin
American Physicist
On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.
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Amelia Earhart
American Aviator
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Quote examples
Jacqueline McKenzie
Australian Actress
I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product.
Quote examples
Woodrow Wilson
American President
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
Quote examples
William James
American Philosopher
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
Quote examples
Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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