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KINSHIP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
Example:
anthropology's kinship with the humanities
Synonyms:
affinity; kinship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("kinship" is a kind of...):
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kinship"):
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Synonyms:
family relationship; kinship; relationship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("kinship" is a kind of...):
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
Domain category:
anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kinship"):
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)
Derivation:
kin (group of people related by blood or marriage)
kin (a person having kinship with another or others)
