different between sisterly vs sisterhood

English

Etymology

From sister +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?st?li/
• Homophone: systole (in non-rhotic accents)

Adjective

sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)

1. Of or characteristic of sisters.
   • 2011, Jane Martinson, The Guardian, 4 May 2011:

     Burton designed both Middleton sisters' dresses in white, so that when Pippa picked up Kate's train in the abbey, the two of them were united, visually, in a display of sisterly togetherness.

Translations

Adverb

sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)

1. In the manner of a sister, behaving as one would expect of a sister; as a sister, as sisters.
   • 1907, Jack London, The Iron Heel:

     "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"

Translations

Related terms

• big-sisterly

Anagrams

• styliser

English

Etymology

From Middle English susterhede; equivalent to sister +? -hood (with a modification in the suffix).

Noun

sisterhood (countable and uncountable, plural sisterhoods)

1. the state, or kinship of being sisters
2. the quality of being sisterly; sisterly companionship; especially, the sense that women have of being in solidarity with one another.
3. a religious society of women
4. (feminism) The idea of universal experience amongst women, regardless of other traits or factors. (Considered obsolete in third-wave feminism.)

Synonyms

• (state of being sisters): sistership
• (feminist concept): womanhood

Hypernyms

• siblinghood

Translations

See also

• brotherhood
• sorority

Anagrams

• diorthoses