kinship

kin·ship  (knshp)

n.

1. Connection by blood, marriage, or adoption; family relationship.

2. Relationship by nature or character; affinity.

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kinship

Noun

1. blood relationship

2. the state of having common characteristics

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kinship

family relationship or other close tie or relationship.

See also: Relationship

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	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" affinity 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.	kinship - (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption family relationship, relationship 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

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kinship

noun 1. relationship, kin, family ties, consanguinity, ties of blood, blood relationship

noun 2. similarity, relationship, association, bearing, connection, alliance, correspondence, affinity

Translations

kinship [ˈkɪnʃɪp] n → parentesco;

(fig) → afinidad f

kinship [ˈkɪnʃɪp] n → parenté f

kinship [ˈkɪnʃɪp] n → Verwandtschaft f

kinship [ˈkɪnʃɪp] n → parentela