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You could just say comradeship or comradery, but it sounds cooler to say camaraderie.
In English, a comrade (and in French, a camarade) is a roommate: someone who shares a room with you. More loosely, it's a close companion: a person you spend a great deal of time with. "Comrade" and camarade both trace back to a Latin word for "a bedroom or a vaulted chamber," camera. (Yup, that's the same camera that gave us the English word "camera," originally called a "camera obscura" or "dark chamber.")
Part of speech:
Pick the formal, beautiful, highly positive, semi-common word "camaraderie" when you want to highlight how easy and happy it is to spend time with your closest group of friends, colleagues, coworkers, or teammates.
"I help her take the dishes out of the dishwasher. We work in quiet camaraderie until the task is done, and sleep calls."
Explain the meaning of "camaraderie" without saying "fellowship" or "conviviality."
Fill in the blanks: "(Someone) (loved, enjoyed, or missed) the camaraderie (of or among) (some group of people at a certain place or time)."
Try to spend 20 seconds or more on the game below. Don’t skip straight to the review—first, let your working memory empty out.
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A near opposite of CAMARADERIE could be
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