family relationship vs maternity

maternity vs family relationship

family relationship and maternity both are nouns.

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

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

family relationship: (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
maternity: the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother

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

family relationship (noun)	maternity (noun)
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption	the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother
	the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
	the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus

Difference between family relationship and maternity

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