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kindhood

kindhood noun: the quality of being of a kind or sort.

Noun

kindhood (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being of a kind or sort.
    • Foucault recognizes that different forms of categorization are based on different forms of kindhood.1999, Mark Olssen, Michel Foucault: Materialism and Education, page 58
    • 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.2008, Paul E. Griffiths, What Emotions Really Are, page 202

Origin of kindhood

From kind + -hood.

Questions about kindhood

What does kindhood mean?
Kindhood means the quality of being of a kind or sort.
What part of speech is kindhood?
Kindhood is a noun.

Words near kindhood in the dictionary

  1. kindhearted
  2. kindheartedly
  3. kindheartedness
  4. kindheartednesses
  5. kindhearts
  6. kindhood
  7. Kindia
  8. kindiddle
  9. kindiddled
  10. kindiddles
  11. kindiddling

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