kinship vs brotherhood

brotherhood vs kinship

kinship and brotherhood both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
kinship	Yes	No	No	No
brotherhood	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, brotherhood is a hyponym of kinship; that is, brotherhood is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than kinship:

kinship: (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
brotherhood: the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings

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

kinship (noun)	brotherhood (noun)
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption	the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character	people engaged in a particular occupation
	an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
	the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings

Difference between kinship and brotherhood

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