kinship vs lineage

lineage vs kinship

kinship and lineage both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

kinship (noun)	lineage (noun)
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption	inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character	the hereditary derivation of an individual
	a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted
	the number of lines in a piece of printed material
	the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

Difference between kinship and lineage

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