family relationship vs descent

descent vs family relationship

family relationship and descent both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
family relationship	Yes	No	No	No
descent	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, descent is a hyponym of family relationship; that is, descent is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than family relationship:

family relationship: (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
descent: the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

Other hyponyms of family relationship include affinity, phylogenetic relation, filiation, line of descent, lineage, affinity, blood kinship, cognation, consanguinity, birth, parentage, fatherhood, paternity, maternity, motherhood, sisterhood, sistership, brotherhood, marital bed, marital relationship.

family relationship (noun)	descent (noun)
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption	the act of changing your location in a downward direction
	properties attributable to your ancestry
	a movement downward
	the hereditary derivation of an individual
	a downward slope or bend
	the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

Difference between family relationship and descent

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