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Companionate

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Designating a proposed type of marriage (or other partnership) in which the partners plan to have no children and take on no legal obligations to one another. historical
  2. 2
    Friendly, companionable.
  3. 3
    Pertaining to a (chiefly romantic) relationship that emphasises companionship and mutual respect.

    "Gradually it evolved from an economic enterprise to a companionate one—a free-choice engagement between two individuals, based not on duty and obligation but on love and affection."

Adjective
  1. 1
    like a companion wordnet

Etymology

From companion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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