familyhood

English

Etymology

family +‎ -hood

Noun

familyhood (uncountable)

1. The state of being a family.
   • 1896, John Patterson Coyle, The Imperial Christ, page 93:

     Now the supreme fact of his childhood, as of the childhood of most of us, was familyhood, which had conditioned and determined all his early life.

   • 2021 January 27, AFP, “Fans remember Kobe Bryant 1 year after deadly crash”, in The South African‎^[1]:

     All you can do as a friend or a loved one or anyone in our brotherhood or our familyhood that we have here in the Lakers organisation is to put an arm around someone when they need it.