consanguinity
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
The relationship between people descended from the same ancestor; kinship by blood.
Marriage laws in the region still prohibit unions where the degree of consanguinity is too close.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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