cousinship
/ˈkʌzənˌʃɪp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The state of being cousins, or the relationship that exists among cousins.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "“How long did you reside with him and his sisters after the cousinship was discovered?”"
- "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."
- "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."
- "He describes a beautiful thought experiment to demonstrate a rabbit’s cousinship to a leopard."