different between relationship vs spousal

English

Etymology

From relation +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???le??(?)n??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???le???n???p/
• Hyphenation: re?la?tion?ship

Noun

relationship (plural relationships)

1. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
3. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
4. A romantic or sexual involvement.
   • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News

     I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage.

   • 2000, April 8, Dorthea Straus, "Oates on Marilyn: Men, drugs, tragedy", The Baltimore Sun

     Her most satisfying sexual relationship seemed to be a threesome with Charles Chaplin Jr. and Eddy Robinson Jr., the spurned sons of famous film fathers.

5. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
6. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Hyponyms

• joking relationship

Derived terms

• entity-relationship diagram
• entity-relationship model
• relationship anarchy
• relationshipless
• relationshiply
• relationshippy
• relationshopping

Translations

See also

• relate
• relation
• relative

English

Etymology

From spouse +? -al

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /?spa?z?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?spa?z?l/, /?spa?s?l/

Adjective

spousal (comparative more spousal, superlative most spousal)

1. of or relating to marriage
2. of or relating to a spouse, spouses; to the relationship between spouses
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

     There we shall consummate our spousal rites.

Derived terms

• spousal abuse
• spousal support

Translations

Noun

spousal (plural spousals)

1. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) marriage; nuptials; espousal

   • The spousals of Hippolita.

   • Boweth your necke under that blissful yoke […] Whiche men clepen spousayle or wedloke.

   • 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-day

     The spousals of the new-born year.