KINSHIP
Dictionary entry overview: What does kinship mean?
• KINSHIP (noun)
The noun KINSHIP has 2 senses:
1. a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
2. (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Familiarity information: KINSHIP used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• KINSHIP (noun)
Meaning:
A close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
kinship; affinity
Context examples:
found a natural affinity with the immigrants / felt a deep kinship with the other students / anthropology's kinship with the humanities
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)
Meaning:
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
family relationship; kinship; relationship
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"):
brotherhood (the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings)
sisterhood; sistership (the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings)
maternity; motherhood (the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother)
fatherhood; paternity (the kinship relation between an offspring and the father)
birth; parentage (the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents)
blood kinship; cognation; consanguinity ((anthropology) related by blood)
affinity ((anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship)
descent; filiation; line of descent; lineage (the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors)
affinity; phylogenetic relation ((biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts)
marital bed; marital relationship (the relationship between wife and husband)
