family bond
Ties between kin
Family bond is the emotional connection and loyalty shared among relatives.
These bonds form through blood relation, marriage, adoption, or simply through the experience of growing up together: The family bond between the sisters remained strong despite years of living apart.
Family bonds imply mutual obligation and lasting attachment that survives distance, disagreement, and time.
- kinshipState of being related
- blood tiesFamilial relationships through ancestry
- togethernessState of close connection
- closenessState of proximity
- loveIntense fond attachment
connection · bloodline · loyalty · warmth · belonging · heritage · roots · generations · next of kin · reunion · embrace · support · trust · home · Sunday dinner · nurturing · unconditional · quality time
- bondsdebentures, gilts, eurobonds, bondholder, bondholders
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- family themesmother figure, father figure, parent, child, brother
- family symbolsheart, home, house, wedding rings, cradle
- family memoirschildhood memoir
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
family bondestrangement
Emotional separation between people
alienation · disconnection · detachment · abandonment · isolation
family bondfamily feud
Prolonged conflict between relatives
family breakdown · family conflict · family dysfunction · domestic strife · domestic violence
family, bond, families, familial, familiar, familiarity, familiarize, familiarization, unfamiliar