interfamily

Across family lines

Interfamily means between or among families.

It describes relationships, conflicts, or activities that span multiple family units rather than occurring within a single family: interfamily disputes over the property line, interfamily sports competitions at the reunion.

The term contrasts with intrafamily, which refers to matters within one family.

genetics

heredity

Genetic trait transmission

crosses · breeding · lineage · pedigree · transmission · comparison · disorders · predisposition · ancestry · genealogy

adoption

placement

Putting somewhere specific

agreements · visitation · transitions · foster · reunification · casework · kinship · guardianship · permanency · attachment

sensename

relations

Connections or dealings

bonds · marriages · alliances · feuds · rivalries · inheritance · communication · gatherings · tensions · reconciliation

taxonomy

classification

Systematic grouping by traits

phylogeny · cladistics · evolution · species · genera · orders · branches · lineages · clades · morphology

Opposites
scope of family relations

interfamilysingle-family

For one household only

domestic · familial · nuclear · household

Family

family, familiar, unfamiliar, families, familial, nonfamily, antifamily

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