Skinship

Origin

From Japanese スキンシップ or Korean 스킨십, from English skin + -ship, desiged to rhyme with kinship.

Full definition of skinship

Noun

1. bonding through physical contact
• 1994 , Nicole Landry Sault , Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations Chapter , In Mexico, interdependence among people in emphasized and expressed through cosleeping and "skinship." … A similar type of "skinship" also exists throughout Mexico—all one had to do is look at the way people walk or sit together. … women are always patting touching ...

Anagrams

• kinships

Usage notes

This word is mainly in use in Japan and South Korea and is rarely or never used by native English speakers.