ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Kintype

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Kintype is a noun meaning The base type of an otherkin's identity, such as animal or robot.

Meaning

The base type of an otherkin's identity, such as animal or robot.

More Meanings

  1. (anthropology) A kin relationship expressed in terms of the specific direct relationships involved, such as "mother's brother's son" rather than the more general "cousin".

Example Sentences

The remaining terms can be defined either by a chain of kintypes or by a succession of kinterm equivalences.
Though the experience of being otherkin is typically described in spiritual terms, it is also reported to have physical aspects, such as the sensation of phantom limbs for the body parts their kintype possess but which are absent in the human form […]

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include kinsperson, ally, connection, kindred, relationship, cousin.

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