famiglia

Your closest kin

Famiglia is Italian for family, borrowed into English primarily through depictions of Italian-American life.

It often carries connotations of close-knit loyalty and traditional family bonds: In this house, famiglia comes first.

The word appears frequently in contexts involving organized crime, where it designates a Mafia family or crime syndicate.

household

casa

Hispanic term for dwelling

mafia

clan

Related group sharing ancestry

godfather · vendetta · racket

closeness

amore

Love, in Italian

kinship

clan

Related group sharing ancestry

heritage

cultura

Collective social heritage

Opposites
relational bonds

famigliastrangers

People unknown to you

outsiders · foreigners · solitude · isolation · loneliness

social unit type

famigliastate

Condition or mode

society · single person · loner · institution · orphan

loyalty/allegiance

famigliaenemies

Hostile opposing parties

foes · rivals · adversaries · opponents · traitors

Family

family, familiar, unfamiliar, families, familial, infamy, familiarize, unfamiliarity, familiarly

Familiarity
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