relationship vs sistership

sistership vs relationship

relationship and sistership both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
relationship	Yes	No	No	No
sistership	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sistership is a hyponym of relationship; that is, sistership is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than relationship:

relationship: (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
sistership: the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings

Other hyponyms of relationship include affinity, phylogenetic relation, descent, filiation, line of descent, lineage, affinity, blood kinship, cognation, consanguinity, birth, parentage, fatherhood, paternity, maternity, motherhood, sisterhood, brotherhood, marital bed, marital relationship.

relationship (noun)	sistership (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)	an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption	the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings
a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)
a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries

Difference between relationship and sistership

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