relationship

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a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)
"the relationship between mothers and their children"
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a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)
"he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship"
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the way something is with respect to its main attributes
"the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
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is a type of (narrower)
the way something is with respect to its main attributes
"the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
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