companionship

companionship
    n 1: the state of being with someone; "he missed their company";
         "he enjoyed the society of his friends" [syn: {company},
         {companionship}, {fellowship}, {society}]
    

Companionship \Com*pan"ion*ship\, n.
   Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company
   with any one. --Shak.
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         He never seemed to avail himself of my sympathy other
         than by mere companionship.              --W. Irving
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34 Moby Thesaurus words for "companionship":
      affiliation, amity, association, boon companionship, brotherhood,
      brotherliness, camaraderie, chumship, colleagueship, community,
      community of interest, company, comradeship, confraternity,
      consociation, consortship, cooperation, esprit de corps,
      fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry,
      friendship, membership, partaking, participation, partnership,
      sharing, sisterhood, sisterliness, society, sodality, sorority