Synonyms of the word

kinship

• n. relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.
• n. relation or connection by nature or character.

affinity

• n. A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
• n. A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity…
• n. A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
• n. The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
• n. Any romantic relationship.
• n. Any passionate love for something.
• n. (taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common…
• n. (geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common…
• n. (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming…
• n. (medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen.
• n. (computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating…
• n. (geometry) An automorphism of affine space.

relation

• n. The manner in which two things may be associated.
• n. A member of one's family.
• n. The act of relating a story.
• n. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
• n. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
• n. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
• n. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
• n. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
• n. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

relationship

• n. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
• n. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
• n. A romantic or sexual involvement.
• n. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other.
• n. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.