'Kinship' definitions:
Definition of 'kinship'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: affinity, kinship]
noun
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption [syn: kinship, family relationship, relationship]
Definition of 'Kinship'
From: GCIDE
- Kinship \Kin"ship\, n. Family relationship. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'kinship'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accord,
- accordance,
- affiliation,
- affinity,
- agape,
- agnation,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- amity,
- ancestry,
- association,
- blood,
- blood relationship,
- bonds of harmony,
- brotherhood,
- brotherly love,
- brothership,
- caritas,
- cement of friendship,
- charity,
- cognation,
- common ancestry,
- common descent,
- common source,
- common stock,
- communion,
- community,
- community of interests,
- compatibility,
- concord,
- concordance,
- congeneracy,
- congeniality,
- connateness,
- connaturality,
- connaturalness,
- connature,
- connection,
- consanguinity,
- correspondence,
- cousinhood,
- cousinship,
- empathy,
- enation,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- family favor,
- family likeness,
- family relationship,
- fatherhood,
- feeling of identity,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- filiation,
- flesh and blood,
- fraternity,
- frictionlessness,
- generic resemblance,
- good vibes,
- good vibrations,
- happy family,
- harmony,
- identity,
- kindred,
- like-mindedness,
- lineage,
- love,
- maternity,
- matrilineage,
- matriliny,
- matrisib,
- matrocliny,
- motherhood,
- mutuality,
- oneness,
- parallelism,
- paternity,
- patrilineage,
- patriliny,
- patrisib,
- patrocliny,
- peace,
- propinquity,
- rapport,
- rapprochement,
- reciprocity,
- relation,
- relationship,
- sharing,
- sibship,
- similarity,
- sisterhood,
- sistership,
- solidarity,
- sympathy,
- symphony,
- team spirit,
- ties of blood,
- understanding,
- union,
- unison,
- unity