kinship

kinship
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • kinship — is one of the main organizing principles of human society, and kinship systems have been extensively studied by social anthropologists , for whom they are of particular importance because of their primacy in non state societies. Kinship systems… …   Dictionary of sociology

  • Kinship — Kin ship, n. Family relationship. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • kinship — I noun affiliation, affinity, association, bond, brotherhood, closeness, cognation, connection, consanguinity, family, family connection, kindredship, link, propinquity, relation, relationship, tie II index affiliation (bloodline), affinity… …   Law dictionary

  • kinship — (n.) by 1764, from KIN (Cf. kin) + SHIP (Cf. ship). A more pure word than relationship, which covers the same sense but is a hybrid …   Etymology dictionary

  • kinship — [n] family relationship affinity, blood, clan, family, flesh, folk, kin, kindred, lineage, relations, tribe; concepts 296,414,421 …   New thesaurus

  • kinship — ► NOUN 1) blood relationship. 2) a sharing of characteristics or origins …   English terms dictionary

  • kinship — [kin′ship΄] n. [see KIN & SHIP] 1. family relationship 2. relationship; close connection …   English World dictionary

  • kinship — /kin ship/, n. 1. the state or fact of being of kin; family relationship. 2. relationship by nature, qualities, etc.; affinity. [1825 35; KIN + SHIP] Syn. 1. See relationship. 1, 2. connection. 2. bearing. * * * Socially recognized relationship… …   Universalium

  • Kinship — For other uses, see Kinship (disambiguation). Relationships …   Wikipedia

  • kinship — [[t]kɪ̱nʃɪp[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT Kinship is the relationship between members of the same family. The ties of kinship may have helped the young man find his way in life. ...her kinship to the English King. 2) N UNCOUNT If you feel kinship with… …   English dictionary

  • kinship — kin|ship [ˈkınʃıp] n 1.) [U + with] literary a family relationship ▪ the ties of kinship 2.) [singular, U] a strong connection between people →↑rapport kinship between ▪ The sense of kinship between the two men is surprising. ▪ He felt a kinship …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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