1 a friendly relationship, or the state of being friends:
Over time, their acquaintance developed into a lasting friendship.
In every friendship there has to be some give-and-take.
He gets really jealous if his girlfriend strikes up a friendship with another man.
The qualitative character of men and women's friendships was often distinctive, although mediated by social class and area differences.
Their roles in friendships changed too in that they needed to determine how their friends were responding to their illness and adapt to that.
Mediated by the appropriate understanding of character traits, consequentialism and genuine friendship are, conceptually speaking, perfectly compatible.
