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Skinship vs Kinship - What's the difference?

skinship | kinship |

As nouns the difference between skinship and kinship

is that skinship is bonding through physical contact while kinship is relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.

skinship

English

(wikipedia skinship)

Noun

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  • bonding through physical contact
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1994 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Nicole Landry Sault , title=Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Rutgers University Press , isbn=9780813520803 , page=311 , passage=In Mexico, interdependence among people in emphasized and expressed through cosleeping and "skinship'." … A similar type of "' skinship " also exists throughout Mexico—all one had to do is look at the way people walk or sit together. … women are always patting touching ... }}
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    • , year=2015 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=LT Wolf , title=The World King , chapter= , url= , genre=fiction , publisher= , isbn=978-1-312-37454-6 , page= , passage= However, there were times that folks needed that skinship to feel hearten'd and Dan often felt when others had that need. }}

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    Usage notes

    This word is mainly in use in Japan and South Korea and is rarely or never used by native English speakers.

    kinship

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia kinship) (en noun)
  • relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption
  • relation or connection by nature or character

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