similar in quality or character
"a feeling akin to terror"
"kindred souls"
"the amateur is closely related to the collector"
related by blood
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Pity is akin to love. [ Southern ]
A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain. [ Longfellow ]
Mystery and innocence are not akin. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Dead men are of no family, and are akin to none. [ Proverb ]
A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind. [ Amiel ]
Laughter is akin to weeping, and true humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision. [ H. Giles ]
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