What's the difference between companionship and gadabout?

Companionship


Definition:

  • (n.) Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our studies investigated whether social companionship, as a potentially positive psychological intervention, would increase lymphocyte proliferation and natural killer cell activity in the aged nonhuman primate.
  • (2) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
  • (3) But fear not - if you'd like to find companionship or love, sign up here to view profiles of the kind of erudite, sociable and friendly folk who would never normally dream of going out with you.
  • (4) I’ve recently gained the companionship of a gorgeous Chihuahua and she’s a great source of fun and gives me an excuse to walk around the gorgeous countryside.
  • (5) My wife is not a lesbian, but we thought we could at least live a life of companionship and mutual support.
  • (6) Nothing happened sexually between us, but it was a way of having companionship, of being gay without having sex."
  • (7) Considered together, the results of these studies suggest that companionship plays a more important and more varied role in sustaining emotional well-being than previous studies have acknowledged.
  • (8) Spencer Ackerman: ‘Eating with animal friends is heavenly’ Spencer Ackerman After 12 years of stalwart companionship, my dog Kingsley died on 21 March.
  • (9) Men pass the time drinking and seeking female companionship and sex, either as long-term sexual partners, casual short-term partners, or cash clients.
  • (10) This was not the ideal time to be providing Doug with the intellectual companionship he seemed to crave."
  • (11) Stifled by the restrictions of her life in a small, provincial village, she longs for adventure and companionship.
  • (12) A quick graze of the internet will provide fan theories to feed any hunches you’ve long felt about the happy-go-lucky companionship of Timon and Pumbaa, and their effective adoption of baby Simba, in The Lion King – or indeed the foppish villainy of the same film’s Scar, an alpha lion who has never found a mate in the pride.
  • (13) Study 5 used an experimental design to test the hypothesis that a deficit of companionship elicits more negative reactions from others than does a deficit of social support.
  • (14) Just as important, they provided companionship for him.
  • (15) Stereomicroscopic observations determined that the three vessel types are so intricately intermingled that companionship in distribution does not exist.
  • (16) Luther was my most obvious expression of this.” Osborne quoted by WJ Weatherby “The nag of disquiet and all the inescapable forebodings with which I had been born were so rooted that they couldn’t be dismissed by the pleasure, the luxuries, the companionships and liberations that I felt I should have been enjoying at this point in my life.” Osborne on life in the early 1960s in Almost a Gentleman.
  • (17) Many have relied on their own social networks to find housing, work and companionship.
  • (18) There's an important distinction there; it was not that they found that users of Facebook were better supported emotionally, but that they reported that they felt they were, and in two key categories of emotional support and companionship.
  • (19) Another disused railway line near Kenilworth was now an urban “Greenway”: the companionship of cyclists and dog‑walkers was welcome after my discomfort on the deserted, brambled-choked footpaths of rural England.
  • (20) The organisation provides companionship, skills and constructive, meaningful activity for people with mental health problems.

Gadabout


Definition:

  • (n.) A gadder

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
  • (2) "I’d just like to subtly point out that, were this World Cup to be decided on style as opposed to football, Argentina would have crashed out in the group stages and today would mark the end of the road for Switzerland,” clangs our erstwhile minute-by-minute pal turned Mr Porter gadabout.

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