CONSANGUINITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consanguinity mean? 

• CONSANGUINITY (noun)
  The noun CONSANGUINITY has 1 sense:

1. (anthropology) related by blood

  Familiarity information: CONSANGUINITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSANGUINITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(anthropology) related by blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

blood kinship; cognation; consanguinity

Hypernyms ("consanguinity" is a kind of...):

family relationship; kinship; relationship ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)

Domain category:

anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)

Antonym:

affinity ((anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship)

Derivation:

consanguine (related by blood)