Consanguinity

/kɒnsaŋˈɡwɪnɪti/

Synonyms for "consanguinity" (86 found)

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Noun(7 words)
blood relationshipcognationbelong to a familyblood bondblood kinblood kinshipblood relation

Strong matches (25)

breedbrotherhoodbrothershipcognationcommon ancestrycommon descentcommon sourcecommon stockconnectioncousinhoodcousinshipderivationdescentdirect linedistaff sideenationextractionfamilyfamily relationshipfatherhood
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Noun(2 words)
genetic relatednesshomogeneity

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6 relation types

More general

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family relationshipgenetic relationheredity relationkinshiprelatedness measurerelationrelationship

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8 entries
blood tiecoefficient of consanguinitycoefficient of relatednessfirst degree kinshiphomozygosity risklineal kinshiprecessive disease risksecond degree kinship

Collocations

6 entries
blood kinshipblood relationcoefficient of consanguinityconsanguineous marriagedegree of consanguinitykinship by blood

Inflections

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Derivations

6 entries

Antonyms

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Sample sentences

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Their degrees of consanguinity and alliance are very strange; for being thus akin and allied to one another, we found that none was either father or mother, brother or sister, uncle or aunt, nephew or niece, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, godfather or godmother, to the other; unless, truly, a tall flat-nosed old fellow, who, as I perceived, called a little shitten-arsed girl of three or four years old, father, and the child called him daughter.

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1776, United States Declaration of Independence They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.

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At Isabella's earnest request, he took both her and the child on board, for the single hour which remained to the voyagers, to the satisfaction of all parties, and it seemed as if the long-drooping flower had already revived beneath the genial smile of consanguinity, and the very tears she had shed were sweet and grateful, refreshing the bosom moved so tenderly.

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The Mongrel Virginians was similar to other eugenic family studies in its method and mode of argumentation, but its intensive focus on "race mixing," rather than consanguinity, represents a marked departure from the previous studies.

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