kindred
KIN-dridadjMeaning alike in nature or interests; related
Memory hook KIN-DRED SPIRITS: family at heart. Rosa and Nana Lou reach for the same old mystery novel and burst out laughing. They are like family at heart: kindred spirits.
Rosa and Nana Lou turned out to be kindred spirits, both crazy about mystery novels.
In context Though they lived on opposite sides of the world, the two pen pals felt kindred: they loved the same music, feared the same spiders and laughed at the same jokes.
Similar related, like-minded, similar, allied
Opposite unrelated, dissimilar, alien