kinship

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: kin=ship

CIDE DICTIONARY

kinship, n. 

 Family relationship.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

kinship, n.
1 blood relationship.
2 the sharing of characteristics or origins.

THESAURUS

kinship

accord, accordance, affiliation, affinity, agape, agnation, agreement, alliance, amity, ancestry, association, blood, blood relationship, bonds of harmony, brotherhood, brotherly love, brothership, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, common source, common stock, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, concord, concordance, congeneracy, congeniality, connateness, connaturality, connaturalness, connature, connection, consanguinity, correspondence, cousinhood, cousinship, empathy, enation, esprit, esprit de corps, family favor, family likeness, family relationship, fatherhood, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, filiation, flesh and blood, fraternity, frictionlessness, generic resemblance, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, identity, kindred, like-mindedness, lineage, love, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, mutuality, oneness, parallelism, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, peace, propinquity, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, relation, relationship, sharing, sibship, similarity, sisterhood, sistership, solidarity, sympathy, symphony, team spirit, ties of blood, understanding, union, unison, unity