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Meaning of "sisterliness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SISTERLINESS

sisterliness  [ˈsɪstəlɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SISTERLINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sisterliness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SISTERLINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sisterliness in the English dictionary

The definition of sisterliness in the dictionary is the quality or state of being of, resembling, or suitable to a sister, esp in showing kindness and affection.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SISTERLINESS


comeliness
ˈkʌmlɪnɪs
disorderliness
dɪsˈɔːdəlɪnɪs
fatherliness
ˈfɑ:ðəlɪnɪs
friendliness
ˈfrɛndlɪnɪs
holiness
ˈhəʊlɪnɪs
loveliness
ˈlʌvlɪnɪs
mannerliness
ˈmænəlɪnɪs
miserliness
ˈmaɪzəlɪnɪs
neighbourliness
ˈneɪbəlɪnɪs
orderliness
ˈɔːdəlɪnɪs
scholarliness
ˈskɒləlɪnɪs
silliness
ˈsɪlɪnɪs
soldierliness
ˈsəʊldʒəlɪnɪs
southerliness
ˈsʌðəlɪnɪs
timeliness
ˈtaɪmlɪnɪs
ugliness
ˈʌɡlɪnɪs
unmannerliness
ʌnˈmænəlɪnɪs
unsisterliness
ʌnˈsɪstəlɪnɪs
weatherliness
ˈweðəlɪnɪs
westerliness
ˈwɛstəlɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SISTERLINESS

sissiness
Sissinghurst Castle
sissoo
sissy
sissyish
sissyness
sist
sister
sister school
sister-in-law
sisterhood
sisterless
sisterlike
sisterly
sisters-in-law
Sistine
Sistine Chapel
sistra
sistroid
sistrum

WORDS THAT END LIKE SISTERLINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
core business
craziness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
happiness
laziness
loneliness
readiness
rough-and-readiness
show business
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of sisterliness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sisterliness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SISTERLINESS

Find out the translation of sisterliness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sisterliness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sisterliness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

友爱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sisterliness
570 millions of speakers

English

sisterliness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

sisterliness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

sisterliness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

sisterliness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sisterliness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

sisterliness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sisterliness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Saudara perempuan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sisterliness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

sisterliness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

sisterliness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kepiye?
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sisterliness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

sisterliness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बहिणपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sisterliness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sisterliness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sisterliness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

sisterliness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sisterliness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sisterliness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sisterliness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sisterliness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sisterliness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sisterliness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SISTERLINESS»

The term «sisterliness» is used very little and occupies the 161.059 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SISTERLINESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sisterliness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sisterliness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sisterliness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SISTERLINESS»

Discover the use of sisterliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sisterliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Feminism, Media, and the Law
A possible religious formation for the sisterliness (the angelic paradigm) may be found in the way some narrators refer to "God"; others imply religious discourse by referring to the "gift" or by generating rituals as part of the surrogacy project.
Martha Fineman, Martha T. McCluskey, 1997
2
Riddles and Revelations: Forms of Incest Telling in ...
"Sisterliness, dignified and honorable, made much more sense" (12), the narrator declares in reference to her classmates. If she wanted them to be sexually neutral beings, the story about her aunt — a tale that folds within it a covert incestuous ...
Mako E. Yoshikawa, 2008
3
Teaching Modern Foreign Languages: A Handbook for Teachers
She identifies Cathy and Claire as part of girls' feminine education, their function being to advise the less experienced by distributing "useful feminine knowledge" about how to behave (29). McRobbie's references to sisterliness are frequent.
Carol Morgan, Peter Neil, 2001
4
Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self
She identifies Cathy and Claire as part of girls' feminine education, their function being to advise the less experienced by distributing "useful feminine knowledge” about how to behave (29). McRobbie's references to sisterliness are frequent.
Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz, 2012
5
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
"Half sisterliness: take the thing on trust!" 694.66 R. and B. 3.757 Sisterly. Sagely and sisterly administered, 830.5 R. and B. 9.675 Sister-nymphs. And ye, white crowd of woodland sister- nymphs, 441.55 Artemis 118 Sister-palms. A vintage ...
6
Responses to Christa Wolf: critical essays
Marks of sisterliness, which, it seems to me, appears more frequently than brotherliness. (IT 161) "Sisterliness" among women, and women writers in particular, is the perspective under which Wolf now comes to see past, present, and future.
Marilyn Sibley Fries, 1989
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The complete works of Robert Browning: with variant readings ...
That wife could broider, sing perhaps, Pray certainly, but no more read than write 755 This letter "which yet write she must," he said, "Being half courtesy and compliment, Half sisterliness: take the thing on trust!" She had as readily re- traced the ...
Robert Browning, Roma Alvah King, Jack W. Herring, 1985
8
Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the ...
... How wise ones may be taken in !--Then you did not know, that I was jesting with you all this time !—And so you would have me carry down this pretty piece of nonsense ? Don't let me be surprised at your seeming un— sisterliness, Bella.
Samuel Richardson, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), 1820
9
Cinema and Nation
National identity did not always or necessarily come into it. Thus in some quarters , the popular groundswell of empathy registered as feminism or sisterliness; in other quarters, or even at the same time, it took the shape of an ti- authoritarian ...
Mette Hjort, Scott Mackenzie, 2005
10
The Workingman's Paradise
... know that to him she was very much, that to her he owed largely the bent of his thinking, that to her he still looked as a monitress. But she lulled herself with the delusion that all this was brotherliness and that all her feelings were sisterliness.
William Lane, Bruce Bennett, Robert Dixon, 1892

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SISTERLINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sisterliness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Taylor Swift review – poet of kiss and tell
When these girls are given passes, it is to the most wholesome and sisterly of aftershows – the meet-and-greet that Swift hosts after most gigs. Sisterliness ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
2
Reading taught me all about life
While Shirley Conran, author of the unsurpassable Lace, introduced us to kick-ass career women, sisterliness and shagging and, of course, penned the most ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
3
The seven lessons in the art of being a French woman
French women don't do sisterliness. That “special place in hell for women who don't help other women” that Madeleine Albright spoke of? It has been ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
4
Rare example of parking thoughtfulness, the opposite of road rage
But I have to say, what I like best about walking around and gasping at the beauty of what women have worn and cherished is the sisterliness of admiration. «San Francisco Chronicle, Mar 15»
5
Madonna faces her new challenge - age discrimination
But it's not just about individualistic survival ability, sisterliness or externals like Vogue style or Desperately Seeking Susan attitude. Madonna is not worthy of ... «The Star Online, Mar 15»
6
Madonna is superhuman. She has to be to survive the ugly abuse
But it's not just about individualistic survival ability, sisterliness or externals like Vogue style or Desperately Seeking Susan attitude. Madonna is not worthy of ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
7
Women are being bitchier than ever - where's the sisterhood gone?
Sisterliness, as far as I could tell, was assumed. Whereas today? Dr Frankish explains the context for our culture's woman-on-woman hostility thus: “We are living ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
8
CD review | Reflection: Late-blooming quintet more prefab than fab
That Reflection celebrates female empowerment and the virtues of sisterliness is to be celebrated, but the effort too often seems like curdled milk. Favorite; Print ... «Columbus Dispatch, Feb 15»
9
Fifth Harmony charms and frustrates on debut album
That “Reflection” celebrates female empowerment and the virtues of sisterliness is to be both celebrated and expected, but it too often seems like curdled milk. «Standard-Examiner, Feb 15»
10
Fifth Harmony: A reminder of when girl groups dominated the pop …
That “Reflection” celebrates female empowerment and the virtues of sisterliness is to be both celebrated and expected, but it too often seems like curdled milk. «Washington Post, Feb 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Sisterliness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sisterliness>. Apr 2024 ».
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