Etymology

cousiness

C3O1U1S1I1N1E1S1S1

Today it means: A female cousin. Full definition →

Middle English cosynes
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle English · inherited fromcosynes
  2. English todaycousiness

From Middle English cosynes, cosyness; equivalent to cousin + -ess.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.