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Meaning of KINSHIP

Pronunciation:  'kinship

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 Definition: 
  1. [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"
  2. [n]  state of relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
 
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 Synonyms: affinity, family relationship, relationship
 
 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

 

 

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Kin"ship\, n.
Family relationship.
 
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 Related Terms: 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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