cousinliness

Etymology

From cousinly + -ness.

cousinliness means the quality of being cousinly. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.

noun

The quality of being cousinly.“Unkindness would have implied intimacy, or, at any rate, cousinliness, whereas, but for his presence in her boudoir, and his familiar tone with her mother, a stranger might have supposed the two young people to be the merest casual acquaintances.”