"kinship" | Definition and Related Words

kinship

Noun

A close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character (synset 113833622)
"found a natural affinity with the immigrants"; "felt a deep kinship with the other students"; "anthropology's kinship with the humanities"

is a type of: relation - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
subtypes:
- rapport, resonance - a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people
- sympathy - a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other
same as: affinity
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption (synset 113834819)
referred to in: anthropology - the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings

is a type of: relation - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
subtypes:
- affinity, phylogenetic relation - (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts
- descent, filiation, line of descent, lineage - the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
- affinity - (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship
- blood kinship, cognation, consanguinity - (anthropology) related by blood
- birth, parentage - the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
- fatherhood, paternity - the kinship relation between an offspring and the father
- maternity, motherhood - the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
- sisterhood, sistership - the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings
- brotherhood - the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings
- marital bed, marital relationship - the relationship between wife and husband
same as: family relationship, relationship

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