consanguinity

Meaning

1. A consanguineous or family relationship through parentage or descent. A blood relationship.
2. Inbreeding

Synonyms

blood relation

relationship

blood relationship

lineage

kinship

cognation

blood kinship

blood

🩸

kindred

genetic relationship

affiliation

isogeny

extraction

family

👪

homology

strain

blood brotherhood

blood-relationship

blood relative

homologisation

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɒnsaŋˈɡwɪnɪti/

Etymology

From Middle English consanguinytee, consanguinite, consanguinyte, from Old French consanguinité and Latin cōnsanguinitātem, accusative of Latin cōnsanguinitās, from cōnsanguineus, from Latin com- (“together”) + sanguineus (“of or pertaining to blood”), from Latin sanguis (“blood”).