kinship
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(noun) state of relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption |
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Synonyms: family relationship, relationship |
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Related Words: affinity, birth, blood kinship, brotherhood, cognation, consanguinity, descent, fatherhood, filiation, kinship by marriage, line of descent, lineage, maternity, motherhood, parentage, paternity, phylogenetic relation, relation, sisterhood, sistership |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: affinity |
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Related Words: rapport, relation, sympathy |
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