consanguinity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: con=san=guin=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

consanguinity, n. [L. consanguinitas: cf. F. consanguintité.].

 The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity.  [1913 Webster]
"Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

consanguinity

affiliation, affinity, agnation, alliance, ancestry, apparentation, birth, blood, blood relationship, bloodline, branch, breed, brotherhood, brothership, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, common source, common stock, connection, cousinhood, cousinship, derivation, descent, direct line, distaff side, enation, extraction, family, family relationship, fatherhood, female line, filiation, fraternity, house, kindred, kinship, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, phylum, propinquity, race, relation, relationship, seed, sept, sibship, side, sisterhood, sistership, spear side, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, succession, sword side, ties of blood

ROGET THESAURUS

consanguinity

Consanguinity

N consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood, parentage, filiation, affiliation, lineage, agnation, connection, alliance, family connection, family tie, ties of blood, nepotism, kinsman, kinfolk, kith and kin, relation, relative, connection, sibling, sib, next of kin, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, cousin- german, first cousin, second cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, ear relation, distant relation, brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood, family, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood, race, stock, generation, sept, stirps, side, strain, breed, clan, tribe, nation, related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral, cognate, agnate, connate, kindred, affiliated, fraternal, intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied, german.

Paternity

N paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother, paternal, parental, maternal, family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal, avi numerantur avorum, happy he with such a mother, hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit.