What does kinship mean?

Definitions for kinship
ˈkɪn ʃɪpkin·ship

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. affinity, kinshipnoun

    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"

  2. kinship, family relationship, relationshipnoun

    (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption

Wiktionary

  1. kinshipnoun

    relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption

  2. kinshipnoun

    relation or connection by nature or character

  3. Etymology: kin + -ship

ChatGPT

  1. kinship

    Kinship refers to the connection between individuals established through marriage, blood relationships, or adoption. It often entails shared obligations, responsibilities, and rights influenced by culture and sometimes law. This includes relationships like parent-child, siblings, cousins, uncles, aunts, and in-laws.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Kinshipnoun

    family relationship

Wikidata

  1. Kinship

    Kinship is a term with various meanings depending upon the context. This article reflects the long-standing use of the term in anthropology, which is usually considered to refer to the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of most humans in most societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. In other disciplines, kinship may have a different meaning. In biology, it typically refers to the degree of genetic relatedness or coefficient of relationship between individual members of a species. It may also be used in this specific sense when applied to human relationships, in which case its meaning is closer to consanguinity or genealogy. In a more general sense, kinship may refer to a similarity or affinity between entities on the basis of some or all of their characteristics that are under focus. This may be due to a shared ontological origin, a shared historical or cultural connection, or some other perceived shared features that connect the two entities. For example, a person studying the ontological roots of human languages might ask whether there is kinship between the English word seven and the German word sieben. It can be used in a more diffuse sense as in, for example, the news headline "Madonna feels kinship with vilified Wallis Simpson", to imply a felt similarity or empathy between two or more entities.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of kinship in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of kinship in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of kinship in a Sentence

  1. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang:

    We hope that our compatriots on both sides of the strait will continue to strengthen mutual understanding and trust, deepen their bonds of kinship, bring hearts and minds together.

  2. Carol Hafner:

    I want to do good in a place that I feel a kinship for, don’t lock me out just because I’m not a homeboy.

  3. Aidan Key:

    Aron Janssen can immediately find kinship and find someone who understands Aron Janssen experience.

  4. Per Karsten:

    You can only speculate as to whether The CT was one of Winstrup's next of kin, or whether someone else took the opportunity while preparing the coffin. But we hope to be able to clarify any kinship through a DNA test.

  5. Claudio Cavazzuti:

    Our study emphasizes the social and political role of Bronze Age women as agents of cultural hybridization and change, we may also argue that the integration into the kinship group of high-ranking women from outside, as a result of marriage exchanges, might have been crucial for the emerging elite of the 2nd millennium BC.

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