The state, relationship, or kinship of being cousins; the collective bonds and experiences shared by cousins.
Formed from 'cousin' (from Old French 'cosin', from Latin 'consobrinus' meaning child of a parent's sibling) plus the suffix '-hood' (a state or condition), creating a noun that describes cousin-related identity and kinship.
While 'cousenhood' is incredibly rare in modern English, it shows how medieval and early modern writers used '-hood' to turn almost any relationship into an abstract concept—you could find this in historical texts alongside 'knighthood' and 'kinship'!
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