bloodsparse

/ˈblʌdˌspɑːs/nounVerified New

Also in: Blutdünn (Deutsch) · sangralo (Español) · sangclairsemé (Français)

The pattern of family contact that happens at long, irregular intervals, with vast quiet in between.

Bloodsparse families are close in law and distant in practice: a wedding, a funeral, a forwarding of an old photo. The affection is real; the frequency is not. Nobody is to blame — the calendar simply fills from both ends.

Etym. — blood + sparse — the relation dense in kinship, sparse in contact.

Rel. — obituarydial

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