human relationship

Other forms: human relationships

Definitions of human relationship

1. noun

   a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)
   synonyms: relationship

   types:

   partnership

   a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal

   personal relation, personal relationship

   a relation between persons

   bonding

   a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child)

   indebtedness, obligation

   a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor

   type of:

   relation

   an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together