Dictionary

cousinship en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkʌzənˌʃɪp/

Etymology

From cousin + -ship.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state of being cousins, or the relationship that exists among cousins.
   • “How long did you reside with him and his sisters after the cousinship was discovered?” 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
   • He describes a beautiful thought experiment to demonstrate a rabbit’s cousinship to a leopard. 2009 October 11, Nicholas Wade, “Evolution All Around”, in The New York Times:
   • 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. 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
   • 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. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah:

Forms

Hypernyms

kinship

Synonyms

cousinhood

Translations (7)

fr cousinage (state of being cousins) · kmr pismamî (state of being cousins) · pl kuzynostwo (state of being cousins) · io kuzeso (state of being cousins) · de Vetternschaft (state of being cousins) · chr ᏚᎾᏓᏚᏓᎸ (state of being cousins) · it cuginanza (state of being cousins)