✅ Encourage means to inspire or support someone or something (I’m grateful to those who encouraged me).

✅ Boost means to encourage and support through promotion or sharing a good opinion (I always boost my favorite businesses).

✅ Both of these terms mean to support or metaphorically lift up.

✅ Encourage is used more widely than boost.

✅ Togetherness refers to close, warm friendship and companionship (A feeling of togetherness defined our holiday).

✅ Fellowship refers to a sense of companionship, often including a sense of equality or camaraderie (After our adventures, we had an unbreakable fellowship).

✅ Both of these words refer to friendship and companionship. They also both refer to a sense of mutual fondness and shared experience.

✅ Fellowship is a little less commonly used than togetherness and can sound old-fashioned.

✅ Family refers to a social unit, usually consisting of people who are related to one another but sometimes including close friends (I’ve known you for years, you’re family).

✅ Kin refers to a group of people who are related to one another and who form a family or clan (The reunion was a chance to get to know distant kin we hadn’t seen in years).

✅ Family and kin both refer to a group of people who are related to one another.

✅ Family suggests an emotionally or genetically close relationship, whereas kin often includes people who are more distantly related and may not know each other.