Kinship Systems

noun a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household

adjective relating to or characteristic of a family

• The family gathered together for a formal dinner to celebrate the occasion.
• We're planning a family picnic this weekend, wanna join?
• My fam is going to the beach, you should roll with us!
• The team at work feels like a family, always supporting each other.

noun a marriage between people of different races, castes, or religions

• The royal family discouraged intermarriage with commoners in order to maintain their noble lineage.
• My grandparents' intermarriage between different cultures was quite progressive for their time.
• I heard there was some drama in the community because of intermarriage between rival families.
• The intermarriage of ideas from different fields led to a groundbreaking scientific discovery.

noun the practice of marrying one's sibling

• Adelphogamy is the practice of marrying within one's own family or clan.
• I heard adelphogamy was common among certain royal families in history.
• People used to joke that adelphogamy was just a fancy way of saying marrying your cousin.
• In a figurative sense, adelphogamy can refer to any close-knit community where relationships are limited to within the group.

adjective describing or relating to adscription, the act of assigning or attributing something to a particular cause or source

• The adscriptive nature of the contract dictated strict adherence to its terms.
• The adscriptive label on the product indicated its ingredients.
• I don't pay attention to those adscriptive warnings on the packaging.
• Her adscriptive personality traits defined her character.