companionate
adjective
com·pan·ion·ate
kəm-ˈpan-yə-nət 
: relating to or having the manner of companions
specifically
: harmoniously or suitably accompanying
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This kind of familiarity—a way of talking through the screen, jostling past even the most interesting particulars set forward in a script—can make a performer a kind of alien, companionate presence onscreen.
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
That lovingness matches, in a weird way, the tone of Death’s monologues, which, despite a constant Catskills-esque patter of dark jokes about the daily vagaries and indignities of his work, often sound like a companionate essay by Jacobs-Jenkins.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
These examples make a case for animals having emotional attachments, not unlike companionate love in humans.
—Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
That’s because companionate love (for a long-term partner), romantic love and lust are orchestrated by three different brain systems, which operate in tandem.
—Dina Cheney, Good Housekeeping, 2 Nov. 2020
Yet the weight of transcendent meaning and mysticism which gets transferred from divinity to companionate marriage here (as everywhere else in our world) seems a cruelly heavy burden upon intimate life.
—Mark Greif, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2016
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
That lovingness matches, in a weird way, the tone of Death’s monologues, which, despite a constant Catskills-esque patter of dark jokes about the daily vagaries and indignities of his work, often sound like a companionate essay by Jacobs-Jenkins.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
These examples make a case for animals having emotional attachments, not unlike companionate love in humans.
—Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
That’s because companionate love (for a long-term partner), romantic love and lust are orchestrated by three different brain systems, which operate in tandem.
—Dina Cheney, Good Housekeeping, 2 Nov. 2020
Yet the weight of transcendent meaning and mysticism which gets transferred from divinity to companionate marriage here (as everywhere else in our world) seems a cruelly heavy burden upon intimate life.
—Mark Greif, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2016
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“Companionate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/companionate. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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