kindhood

noun

Etymology

From kind + -hood.

  1. inherited from *kinþiz
  2. inherited from *kundi
  3. inherited from cynd
  4. inherited from kynde
  5. suffixed as kindhood — “kind + hood

Definitions

  1. The quality of being of a kind or sort.

    • Foucault recognizes that different forms of categorization are based on different forms of kindhood.
    • Biological taxa and chemical elements have been the twin paradigms of natural kinds, and it has often been assumed that the kindhood of biological taxa must be just like the kindhood of chemical elements.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for kindhood. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA