A relationship between lovers, to distinguish it from the broader term "relationship", which is not limited to romantic usages and could be ambiguous in some contexts. It is a parallel to the word “friendship”, as well as numerous fanfiction pairing names ending in -ship.
A term to describe two people who are more than friends, but due to certain circumstances cannot be dating who have a strong emotional commitment to one another but are far away and often beyond physical access most of the time.
Benefits include being able to whine, pamper, understand, defend, help, talk, whisper, use inside jokes with each other, etc.
They bear every semblance to a real couple, except they are not one.
Origin: Batman (Scarborough Region) and Markham Station conversation
noun: A friendship involving two or more people where the main reason for the relationship is to participate in lewd, inappropriate, and/or sexual activity. Intentions of further development of the relationship such as dating, going steady, or marriage is either absent or not mutual.
I met this girl and we had a week-long bonership before she left for Europe.
Used to describe the core group of people that 'like' your Facebook page. Just like a membership for a club, a likership describes the group of people that follow any given Facebook page described in quantitative terms often against comparable pages or businesses.
1. "Hey Jill, I must be doing something right, my likership just hit 100."
2. "We need to talk to our I.T. department about increasing our likership, our competition's Facebook page now has a larger likership than ours."