relation vs family relationship

family relationship vs relation

relation and family relationship both are nouns.

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

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

relation: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
family relationship: (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption

Other hyponyms of relation include possession, social relation, position, spatial relation, ownership, causality, human relationship, relationship, function, association, logical relation, mathematical relation, foundation, connectedness, connection, connexion, unconnectedness, linguistic relation, component, component part, constituent, part, portion, affinity, kinship, kinship, relationship, magnitude relation, quantitative relation, control, business relation, reciprocality, reciprocity, interrelatedness, interrelation, interrelationship, temporal relation, comparison, oppositeness, opposition, change.

relation (noun)	family relationship (noun)
an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together	(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
(usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
an act of narration
a person related by blood or marriage

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