kindredness
State of relatedness
Kindredness is the quality of being kindred—a sense of shared nature, affinity, or spiritual connection between people or things.
The word emphasizes the abstract state rather than specific relationships: She felt an immediate kindredness with the other artists.
Less common than kinship, it tends toward the poetic or philosophical.
Ancestry through generations
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
kinfolk · relatives · tribe · genealogy · descendants · progeny · forebears · parentage
State of being related
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
- sympathyCompassionate understanding of others
- empathySharing another's emotions
- bondingForming close connections
camaraderie · fellowship · congeniality · accord · solidarity · closeness · intimacy · understanding
Likeness between things
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- similitudeQuality of being alike
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
- comparabilityLikeness permitting evaluation
affinity · parallel · congruence · equivalence · analogy · commonality · shared traits · mirroring
bloodline
Ancestry through generations
heritage · kinfolk · relatives · tribe · genealogy · descendants · progeny · forebears · parentage · blood ties
kinship
State of being related
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
- sympathyCompassionate understanding of others
- empathySharing another's emotions
bonding · camaraderie · fellowship · congeniality · accord · solidarity · closeness · intimacy · understanding · compatibility
resemblance
Likeness between things
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- similitudeQuality of being alike
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
comparability · affinity · parallel · congruence · equivalence · analogy · commonality · shared traits · mirroring · sameness
kindrednessestrangement
Emotional separation between people
alienation · disconnection · isolation · separateness · detachment
kindrednessdissimilarity
State of being unlike
incompatibility · difference · unlikeness · disparity · discordance
kind, kindly, kindness, akin, kindred, kindreds, kindredship