cousinship

English

Etymology

cousin +‎ -ship

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌzənˌʃɪp/

Noun

cousinship (countable and uncountable, plural cousinships)

1. The state of being cousins, or the relationship that exists among cousins.

   Synonym: cousinhood

   Hypernym: kinship

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre‎^[1]:

     “How long did you reside with him and his sisters after the cousinship was discovered?”

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles‎^[2]:

     His creed of determinism was such that it almost amounted to a vice, and quite amounted, on its negative side, to a renunciative philosophy which had cousinship with that of Schopenhauer and Leopardi.

   • 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah‎^[3]:

     What he repudiated was cousinship with the ape, and the implied suspicion of a rudimentary tail, because it was offensive to his sense of his own dignity, and because he thought that apes were ridiculous, and tails diabolical when associated with the erect posture.

   • 2009 October 11, Nicholas Wade, “Evolution All Around”, in The New York Times‎^[4]:

     He describes a beautiful thought experiment to demonstrate a rabbit’s cousinship to a leopard.

Translations

state of being cousins

• Cherokee: ᏚᎾᏓᏚᏓᎸ (dunadadudalv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 表親／表亲 (zh) (biǎoqīn)

• French: cousinage (fr) m
• German: Vetternschaft f
• Ido: kuzeso
• Italian: cuginanza (it) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pismamî (ku)

• Polish: kuzynostwo (pl) m or n
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can