KINSHIP

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 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)

Sense 1

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:

affinity; kinship

Context example:

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)

Sense 2

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"):

affinity; phylogenetic relation ((biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts)

descent; filiation; line of descent; lineage (the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors)

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

blood kinship; cognation; consanguinity ((anthropology) related by blood)

birth; parentage (the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents)

fatherhood; paternity (the kinship relation between an offspring and the father)

maternity; motherhood (the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother)

sisterhood; sistership (the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings)

brotherhood (the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings)

marital bed; marital relationship (the relationship between wife and husband)

Derivation:

kin (group of people related by blood or marriage)

kin (a person having kinship with another or others)

 Context examples 

A short or long-term association between two or more people, including kinship relations, romantic, business, and social interactions.

(Interpersonal Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)

You can understand that our kinship makes it the more impossible for me to screen him in any way.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His lover's imagination had made her holy, too holy, too spiritualized, to have any kinship with him in the flesh.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He hath by rote the name of every knight of France or of England; and all the tree of his family, with his kinships, coat-armor, marriages, augmentations, abatements, and I know not what beside.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He could find no kinship with these stolid-faced, ox-minded bestial creatures.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He drew up lists of the most incongruous things and was unhappy until he succeeded in establishing kinship between them all—kinship between love, poetry, earthquake, fire, rattlesnakes, rainbows, precious gems, monstrosities, sunsets, the roaring of lions, illuminating gas, cannibalism, beauty, murder, lovers, fulcrums, and tobacco.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)