personal relation

Other forms: personal relations

Definitions of personal relation

1. noun

   a relation between persons
   synonyms: personal relationship

   types:

   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

   female bonding

   the formation of a close personal relationship between women

   male bonding

   the formation of a close personal relationship between men

   maternal-infant bonding

   the attachment that forms between an infant and its mother beginning at birth

   type of:

   human relationship, relationship

   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)