| Parasitism 1. (n.) The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite. 2. (n.) The state of being parasitic. Thesaurus Entries accompaniment, accordance, agreement, alliance, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, association, backscratching, bootlicking, brown-nosing, cahoots, co-working, coaction, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination, combined effort, commensality, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conjunction, consilience, conspiracy, cooperation, correspondence, cringing, ecology, ecosystem, fawnery, fawning, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling, handshaking, ingratiation, insinuation, junction, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obsequiousness, prostration, saprophytism, simultaneity, sponging, sycophancy, symbiosis, symbiotics, synchronism, synergy, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, union, united action |