英和和英

名詞

kintype (複数形 kintypes)

1. (anthropology) A kin relationship expressed in terms of the specific direct relationships involved, such as "mother's brother's son" rather than the more general "cousin".
   • 2022, David B. Kronenfeld, Types of Kinship Terminological Systems and How to Analyze Them (page 23)

     The remaining terms can be defined either by a chain of kintypes or by a succession of kinterm equivalences.

2. (fandom slang) The base type of an otherkin's identity, such as animal or robot.
   • 2015, Joseph P. Laycock, Spirit Possession around the World (page 265)

     Though the experience of being otherkin is typically described in spiritual terms, it is also reported to have physical aspects, such as the sensation of phantom limbs for the body parts their kintype possess but which are absent in the human form […]

関連する語

• kinterm