About The Word Kinship

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Kinship

Kinship Meaning & Definition
Kinship Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Kinship?

[n] a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character; "found a natural affinity with the immigrants"; "felt a deep kinship with the other students"; "anthropology's kinship with the humanities"
[n] state of relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption

Synonyms | Synonyms for Kinship: affinity | family relationship | relationship

Related Terms | Find terms related to Kinship: accord | accordance | affiliation | affinity | agape | agnation | agreement | alliance | amity | ancestry | association | blood | blood relationship | bonds of harmony | brotherhood | brotherly love | brothership | caritas | cement of friendship | charity | cognation | common ancestry | common descent | common source | common stock | communion | community | community of interests | compatibility | concord | concordance | congeneracy | congeniality | connateness | connaturality | connaturalness | connature | connection | consanguinity | correspondence | cousinhood | cousinship | empathy | enation | esprit | esprit de corps | family favor | family likeness | family relationship | fatherhood | feeling of identity | fellow feeling | fellowship | filiation | flesh and blood | fraternity | frictionlessness | generic resemblance | good vibes | good vibrations | happy family | harmony | identity | kindred | like-mindedness | lineage | love | maternity | matrilineage | matriliny | matrisib | matrocliny | motherhood | mutuality | oneness | parallelism | paternity | patrilineage | patriliny | patrisib | patrocliny | peace | propinquity | rapport | rapprochement | reciprocity | relation | relationship | sharing | sibship | similarity | sisterhood | sistership | solidarity | sympathy | symphony | team spirit | ties of blood | understanding | union | unison | unity

See Also | birth | blood kinship | brotherhood | cognation | consanguinity | descent | fatherhood | filiation | kinship by marriage | line of descent | lineage | maternity | motherhood | parentage | paternity | phylogenetic relation | rapport | relation | resonance | sisterhood | sistership | sympathy

Kinship In Webster's Dictionary

\Kin"ship\, n. Family relationship.

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