Relationship

(n.) The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.

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accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agnation, alliance, ancestry, approximation, assemblage, association, blood, blood relationship, bond, brotherhood, brothership, closeness, cognation, combination, common ancestry, common descent, connectedness, connection, consanguinity, contiguity, contrariety, cousinhood, cousinship, dealings, deduction, disjunction, enation, fatherhood, filiation, fraternity, homology, intercourse, intimacy, junction, kindred, kinship, liaison, link, linkage, linking, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, mutual attraction, nearness, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, sibship, similarity, sisterhood, sistership, sympathy, tie, tie-in, ties of blood, union