-hood

Suffix

Meaning

A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

obsolete -ship -ness -dom -head -osity -itude -th -ity -icity -ia -mony -itas -itia

Related terms

brotherhood sisterhood childhood neighborhood likelihood priesthood