THESAURUS
affiliation
Americanization, Anschluss, acceptance, accord, acculturation, addition, adjunct, admission, adoption, affairs, affinity, agglomeration, aggregation, agnation, agreement, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, ancestry, apparentation, approximation, assemblage, assimilation, association, birth, blend, blending, blood, blood relationship, bloodline, body, bond, branch, breed, brotherhood, brothership, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, church, citizenship by naturalization, citizenship papers, closeness, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, cognation, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, common ancestry, common descent, communion, community, companionship, company, composition, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, consanguinity, consociation, consolidation, conspiracy, contiguity, contrariety, cooperation, copartnership, copartnery, cousinhood, cousinship, culture shock, dealings, deduction, denomination, derivation, descent, direct line, disjunction, distaff side, division, ecumenism, embodiment, embracement, enation, encompassment, enosis, espousal, extraction, faction, family, fatherhood, federalization, federation, fellowship, female line, filiation, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusion, group, homology, hookup, house, inclusion, incorporation, integration, intercourse, intimacy, junction, junta, kindred, kinship, league, liaison, line, line of descent, lineage, link, linkage, linking, male line, marriage, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, meld, melding, membership, merger, motherhood, mutual attraction, nationalization, naturalization, naturalized citizenship, nearness, offshoot, order, organization, package, package deal, papers, partaking, participation, partnership, party, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, persuasion, phylum, propinquity, proximity, race, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, religious order, schism, school, sect, sectarism, seed, segment, sept, sharing, sibship, side, similarity, sisterhood, sistership, society, sodality, solidification, sorority, spear side, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, succession, sword side, sympathy, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, ties of blood, unification, union, variety, version, wedding
ROGET THESAURUS
affiliation
Consanguinity
N
consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood, parentage, filiation,
affiliation, lineage, agnation, connection, alliance, family connection, family tie, ties of blood, nepotism, kinsman, kinfolk, kith and kin, relation, relative, connection, sibling, sib, next of kin, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, cousin- german, first cousin, second cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, ear relation, distant relation, brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood, family, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood, race, stock, generation, sept, stirps, side, strain, breed, clan, tribe, nation, related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral, cognate, agnate, connate, kindred, affiliated, fraternal, intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied, german.
Attribution
N
attribution, theory, etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale, accounting for, palaetiology, imputation, derivation from, filiation,
affiliation, pedigree, explanation, reason why, attributed, attributable, referable to, referrible to, due to, derivable from, owing to, putative, ecbatic, hence, thence, therefore, for, since, on account of, because, owing to, on that account, from this cause, from that cause, thanks to, forasmuch as, whence, propter hoc, why? wherefore? whence? how comes it, how is it, how happens it? how does it happen? in some way, in some such way, somehow, somehow or other, that is why, hinc illae lachrymae.