kinshipkin‧ship /ˈkɪnʃɪp/ noun 
the ties of kinship2[singular, uncountable] a strong connection between peoplekinship between The sense of kinship between the two men is surprising. He felt a kinship with the only other American on the base.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He felt a kinship with the only other American on the base.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
1[uncountable] literary a family relationship: He felt a kinship with the only other American on the base.· It was not a kinship group in any biological sense.
· But Lévi-Strauss is arguing that kinship systems serve a similar discursive role and that they are similarly constructed out of units of meaning.· But, unlike fashion or kinship systems, literature is not only organized like language; it is actually made of language.· Typically, the anthropologist finds that individuals hold titular offices by virtue of their position in the kinship system.· The gens for Morgan is the source from which both later kinship systems and later political systems evolved.· Amongst other things, it records a kinship system which struck Morgan as distinctly odd.· There are differences in family size and family structure, in numbers of children and extended kinship systems.
· When you read anything that any anthropologist has written on the topic of kinship terminology be on your guard.· The project will use the results of such analysis to re-examine conventional theories of kinship terminologies.· First, and as before, there was evidence of this stage from kinship terminologies.· The comparative study of kinship terminologies is one of the longest established traditions in academic anthropology.
· As groupings became larger, tribes or bands were formed on the basis of more extensive kinship ties.
VERB· I have never been in a country where I have felt such a kinship with what the Government was trying to do.· I had felt this kinship, too.· He felt a secret kinship with the ocean.· Once again Sarn Fong felt a kinship with Fakhru.
the ties of kinship2[singular, uncountable] a strong connection between peoplekinship between The sense of kinship between the two men is surprising. He felt a kinship with the only other American on the base.