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Definition of Kinship
1. Noun. A close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character. "Anthropology's kinship with the humanities"
Generic synonyms: Relation
Specialized synonyms: Rapport, Resonance, Sympathy
2. Noun. (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption.
Generic synonyms: Relation
Category relationships: Anthropology
Specialized synonyms: Affinity, Phylogenetic Relation, Descent, Filiation, Line Of Descent, Lineage, Affinity, Blood Kinship, Cognation, Consanguinity, Birth, Parentage, Fatherhood, Paternity, Maternity, Motherhood, Sisterhood, Sistership, Brotherhood, Marital Bed, Marital Relationship
Derivative terms: Kin, Kin, Relation, Relation
Definition of Kinship
1. n. Family relationship.
Definition of Kinship
1. Noun. relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption ¹
2. Noun. relation or connection by nature or character ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kinship
1. relationship [n -S] - See also: relationship
Medical Definition of Kinship
1. Relationship by marriage or, specifically, a blood tie. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kinship
Literary usage of Kinship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"It thus introduced kinship through males. It involved the breaking up of the
primitive form of the family, and led in time to the transference of the ..."
2. Sociological Study of the Bible by Lucy Blanche (Littelton) Masterman, Louis Wallis, William Shakespeare (1912)
"CHAPTER VI kinship INSTITUTIONS OF ISRAEL The fact of kinship, the tie of blood,
was emphasized very strongly in ancient society. ..."
3. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1908)
"We shall refer to them briefly in describing the smaller kinship groups. There is
probably no known group of human beings ..."
4. Ethics by John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts (1908)
"kinship AND HOUSEHOLD GROUPS i. The kinship Group.—The kinship group is a body
of persons who conceive of themselves as sprung from one ancestor, ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"Toda kinship and Marriage. By WHR RIVERS, MD The kinship system and marriage ...
The system of kinship is of the kind known as ' classificatory,' every male ..."
6. The Environment of Early Christianity by Samuel Angus (1915)
"kinship with the Divine The pagans had some sense of a greater bond—kinship with
the Divine, or the Divine sonship of all men. Aratus and Cleanthes agreed ..."
7. The Todas by William Halse Rivers Rivers (1906)
"The Toda system of kinship is of the kind known as classificatory with several
interesting special features. Perhaps the most important of these is the use ..."
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