sisterhoods
Female fraternal organizations
Sisterhoods is the plural of sisterhood, which refers to bonds between women based on shared experiences, goals, or identity.
A sisterhood may be a formal organization—a religious order of nuns, a sorority, or a women's group: She joined several sisterhoods dedicated to social justice.
More broadly, it describes solidarity among women: The sisterhoods formed during the movement lasted decades.
Houses for religious sisters
- monasteriesResidences for religious brothers
- nunneriesMonasteries for women
- religious ordersVowed spiritual communities
- novicesInexperienced newcomers
habits · cloisters · abbesses · mother superiors · vows · contemplatives · Carmelites · Benedictines
Forming close connections
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- camaraderieGoodwill among companions
- kinshipState of being related
alliance · empowerment · mutual aid · advocacy · feminism · suffrage · activism · collective action
Women's collegiate social organizations
- fraternitiesMale collegiate social organizations
- lodgesBackcountry rental cabins
- societiesOrganized groups of people
- ordersInstructions to obey
guilds · chapters · councils · associations · fellowships · clubs · unions · leagues
Fellow offspring
- family bondsConnections uniting relatives
- bloodlinesLines of hereditary descent
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- relativesThose connected by blood
twins · familial ties · birth order · sibling rivalry · closeness · inherited traits · family resemblance · generational bonds
convents
Houses for religious sisters
- monasteriesResidences for religious brothers
- nunneriesMonasteries for women
- religious ordersVowed spiritual communities
novices · habits · cloisters · abbesses · mother superiors · vows · contemplatives · Carmelites · Benedictines · Franciscans
bonding
Forming close connections
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- camaraderieGoodwill among companions
kinship · alliance · empowerment · mutual aid · advocacy · feminism · suffrage · activism · collective action · women's movement
sororities
Women's collegiate social organizations
- fraternitiesMale collegiate social organizations
- lodgesBackcountry rental cabins
- societiesOrganized groups of people
orders · guilds · chapters · councils · associations · fellowships · clubs · unions · leagues · alliances
siblings
Fellow offspring
- family bondsConnections uniting relatives
- bloodlinesLines of hereditary descent
- lineageDescent from progenitors
relatives · twins · familial ties · birth order · sibling rivalry · closeness · inherited traits · family resemblance · generational bonds · matrilineal
- groupsteam, teams, group, club, clubs
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- Catholic monasticismabbeys, abbots, abbesses, brothers, friars
- church groupssmall group, small groups, congregations, cell group, parishes
- Greek lifefraternities, fraternity, sororities, frats, brotherhood
- nunsnun, nuns, convent, convents, habit
sisterhoodsrivalries
Ongoing contests between opponents
enmities · feuds · antagonisms · factions · hostilities
sisterhoodsisolation
Complete separation from others
alienation · individualism · solitude · atomization · loneliness