consanguinity

Main Entry:
consanguinity [kon-sang-gwin-i-tee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: family relationship
Synonyms: affiliation, affinity, agnate, blood-relationship, brotherhood, cognate, connection, family tie, filiation, kin, kindred, kindredship, kinship, lineage, race, sisterhood, strain
Notes: an affinity is a relationship by marriage and consanguinity is a blood relationship
Main Entry: alliance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: friendly association, agreement
Synonyms: accord, affiliation, affinity, betrothal, bond, coalition, coherence, collaboration, collusion, combination, communion, compact, concord, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, fraternization, friendship, interrelation, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, mutuality, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union
Antonyms: antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war
Main Entry: blood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ancestry
Synonyms: birth, consanguinity, descendants, descent, extraction, family, kindred, kinship, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, relations, stock
Main Entry: kin
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blood relative
Synonyms: affinity, blood, clan, connection, consanguinity, cousin, extraction, family, folk, house, kindred, kinsfolk, kinship, kinsperson, kith, lineage, member, people, race, relation, relationship, sibling, stock, tribe
Notes: your family or relatives are kin; your friends, neighbors, and acquaintances are kith
Main Entry: kindred
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blood relative
Synonyms: affinity, blood, clan, connection, consanguinity, cousin, family, flesh, folk, homefolk, house, kin, kinsfolk, kinsperson, lineage, race, relation, relationship, stock, tribe
Main Entry: relation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: connection, family connection
Synonyms: affiliation, affinity, alliance, association, consanguinity, kin, kindred, kinship, kinsperson, liaison, propinquity, relationship, relative, sibling, similarity
Main Entry: relationship
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: connection; friendship
Synonyms: accord, affair, affiliation, affinity, alliance, analogy, appositeness, association, bond, communication, conjunction, consanguinity, consociation, contact, contingency, correlation, dependence, dependency, exchange, homogeneity, hookup, interconnection, interrelation, interrelationship, kinship, liaison, likeness, link, marriage, nearness, network, parallel, pertinence, pertinency, proportion, rapport, ratio, relation, relativity, relevance, similarity, tie, tie-in, tie-up
Main Entry: propinquity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: kinship
Synonyms: affiliation, connection, consanguinity, kin, relations, relationship
Main Entry: kith and kin
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: acquaintances and relatives
Synonyms: acquaintances, consanguinity, family, friends and relatives, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinsfolk, kinsmen, relations, relatives
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