Cousinship

Quick meaning: Cousinship is a noun meaning The state of being cousins, or the relationship that exists among cousins.

Meaning

The state of being cousins, or the relationship that exists among cousins.

Example Sentences

“How long did you reside with him and his sisters after the cousinship was discovered?”

He describes a beautiful thought experiment to demonstrate a rabbit’s cousinship to a leopard.

His creed of determinism was such that it almost amounted to a vice, and quite amounted, on its negative side, to a renunciative philosophy which had cousinship with that of Schopenhauer and Leopardi.

What he repudiated was cousinship with the ape, and the implied suspicion of a rudimentary tail, because it was offensive to his sense of his own dignity, and because he thought that apes were ridiculous, and tails diabolical when associated with the erect posture.

Word Forms

• cousinships

Synonyms for cousinship

Depending on context, synonyms include cousinhood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include orthocousin, consanguinuity, compatriotship, relationship, coetaneity, same-bloodedness.

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