consanguinity

Borrowed from Middle French consanguinité, from Latin consanguinitas, from consanguineosus meaning "consanguineous", from com- meaning "together" + sanguineus meaning "of or pertaining to blood", from sanguis "blood"

• IPA^(key): /kɑnsæŋˈɡwɪnɪti/

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consanguinity (countable and uncountable, plural consanguinities)

1. A consanguineous or family relationship through parentage or descent. A blood relationship.
   • 1776, United States Declaration of Independence

     They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.

• same-bloodedness

• consanguineous
• consanguinuity

• affinity
• incest