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kinship

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kin·ship  (knshp)
n.
1. Connection by blood, marriage, or adoption; family relationship.
2. Relationship by nature or character; affinity.

kinship [ˈkɪnʃɪp]
n
1. blood relationship
2. the state of having common characteristics or a common origin

kinship
family relationship or other close tie or relationship.
See also: Relationship
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.kinship - 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"
relation - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
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; "the two of them were in close sympathy"
2.kinshipkinship - (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
relation - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
anthropology - the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings
phylogenetic relation, affinity - (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts; "in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans"
filiation, line of descent, lineage, descent - the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
affinity - (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship
blood kinship, consanguinity, cognation - (anthropology) related by blood
parentage, birth - the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
fatherhood, paternity - the kinship relation between an offspring and the father
motherhood, maternity - 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

kinship
noun
1. relationship, kin, family ties, consanguinity, ties of blood, blood relationship the ties of kinship
2. similarity, relationship, association, bearing, connection, alliance, correspondence, affinity She evidently felt a sense of kinship with the woman.
Translations
kinship [ˈkɪnʃɪp] N [of family] → parentesco m (fig) → afinidad f
kinship [ˈkɪnʃɪp] nparenté f
to feel a kinship with sb → se sentir des affinités avec qn, ressentir des affinités avec qn
a deep kinship with sb → de profondes affinités avec qn
to feel a deep kinship with sb → se sentir de profondes affinités avec qn, ressentir de profondes affinités avec qn
He felt a deep kinship with the other students → Il se sentait de profondes affinités avec les autres étudiants., Il ressentait de profondes affinités avec les autres étudiants.
kinship
nVerwandtschaft f; to feel kinship with somebodysich jdm verwandt fühlen
kinship [ˈkɪnʃɪp] nparentela
kinship [ˈkɪnʃɪp] nparentela


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He lounged along, smoking a large cigar, keen-eyed and observant, laying up for himself a store of impressions, unconsciously irritated at every step by a sense of ostracism, of being in some indefinable manner without kinship and wholly apart from this world, in which it seemed natural now that he should find some place.
Or, again, the deed of horror may be done, but done in ignorance, and the tie of kinship or friendship be discovered afterwards.
In the matter of wills, personal qualities were subordinate to the great fundamental fact of blood; and to be determined in the distribution of your property by caprice, and not make your legacies bear a direct ratio to degrees of kinship, was a prospective disgrace that would have embittered her life.
 
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