relation vs kinship

kinship vs relation

relation and kinship both are nouns.

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

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

relation: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
kinship: a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character

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, family relationship, relationship, magnitude relation, quantitative relation, control, business relation, reciprocality, reciprocity, interrelatedness, interrelation, interrelationship, temporal relation, comparison, oppositeness, opposition, change.

relation (noun)	kinship (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	a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
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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