good-fellowship

[ good-fel-oh-ship ]

noun

1. a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; companionship.

   Synonyms: Gemütlichkeit, fellowship

Word History and Origins

Origin of good-fellowship¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

It’s refreshing, then, that David Goodwillie’s very good new novel, “Kings County,” depicts such people with genuine, unmitigated sympathy and good-fellowship, as if, in spite of their fashionable lifestyles, they are as fully human as anyone else.

From New York Times

It is a great brotherhood, which adds something of the good-fellowship of the folk-song, of the feeling of solidarity of convicts, and of the desperate loyalty to one another of men condemned to death, to a condition of life arising out of the midst of danger, out of the tension and forlornness of death—seeking in a wholly unpathetic way a fleeting enjoyment of the hours as they come.

From Literature

As the writer Kenneth Auchincloss referred to them in a 1958 dispatch in The Harvard Crimson: Final clubs are gathering places of the “St. Grottlesex crop,” an amalgamation of the names of several elite East Coast boarding schools, who “look to the Clubs as centers for privacy and ‘good-fellowship,’ cut off from the hectic University by their locked front doors, their aura of secrecy, and a generally shared feeling of superiority.”

From New York Times

They called him “Yo-Yo” jocularly and came in tipsy late at night and woke him up with their clumsy, bumping, giggling efforts to be quiet, then bombarded him with asinine shouts of hilarious good-fellowship when he sat up cursing to complain.

From Literature

For a start, he might take an interest in the actions of Mr. Vincy, the practical-minded mayor of the town of Middlemarch, who “was more inclined to general good-fellowship than to taking sides”—not an approach much seen in the Bloomberg era.

From The New Yorker