The phrase "actually akin" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that two things are similar or comparable in a certain way, often used to clarify or emphasize a point.
Example: "The two theories are actually akin, despite their different terminologies and approaches."
Alternatives: "truly similar" or "genuinely comparable".
Dr Newman's analysis of the animals' interactions suggested that what looked, superficially, like a single group was actually more akin to two groups held together by two "mutual friends".
It is the creepiest of obsessions, hiding behind the pretence of concern, while actually being akin to the behaviour of a peeping tom, both in terms of the smug reaffirmation of the western consumer's implied superior values, and as a general fixation on Arab women as exotic creatures whose value is derived solely from their imprisonment in a gilded cage.
But cinemas are not the equivalent of record labels – which are actually more akin to film studios – they are the film industry version of gig venues, so that comparison would only work if artists would get a share of the bar.
You've got your largely linear levels, which are actually more akin to something like Crash Bandicoot or Super Magnetic Neo than Super Mario 64.
But those are actually more akin to a 19th-Century theater trick known as Pepper's Ghost, wherein an image is projected onto a tilted piece of glass on the floor of a stage, then reflected up and through a thin screen.
Though they look like bread sticks, they're actually more akin to savory pie crust or pastry.
Though they look like bread sticks, these crisp and flaky cheese straws are actually more akin to savory pie crust or pastry.
It was that impression of total jade-ment and his haughty disdainful dismissive anger, actually something akin to an ennui-fury, that made its mark on me.
In some ways, it's actually more akin to natural photosynthesis, which doesn't just split water, but also pulls carbon dioxide from the air to make sugars, Nocera said.
