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affinity
[ uh-fin-i-tee ]
noun
- a natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing, idea, etc.
Synonyms: bent, leaning, sympathy, fondness, partiality
- a person, thing, idea, etc., for which such a natural liking or attraction is felt.
- relationship by marriage or by ties other than those of blood ( consanguinity ).
- inherent likeness or agreement; close resemblance or connection.
Synonyms: compatible, similarity
Antonyms: disparity, dissimilarity
- Biology. the phylogenetic relationship between two organisms or groups of organisms resulting in a resemblance in general plan or structure, or in the essential structural parts.
- Chemistry. the force by which atoms are held together in chemical compounds.
adjective
- of or relating to persons who share the same interests:
to arrange charter flights for opera lovers and other affinity groups.
affinity
/ əˈfɪnɪtɪ /
noun
- foll bywith or for a natural liking, taste, or inclination towards a person or thing
- the person or thing so liked
- a close similarity in appearance or quality; inherent likeness
- relationship by marriage or by ties other than of blood, as by adoption Compare consanguinity
- similarity in structure, form, etc, between different animals, plants, or languages
- chem
- the tendency for two substances to combine; chemical attraction
- a measure of the tendency of a chemical reaction to take place expressed in terms of the free energy change A
- biology a measure of the degree of interaction between two molecules, such as an antigen and antibody or a hormone and its receptor
affinity
/ ə-fĭn′ĭ-tē /
- A relationship or resemblance in structure between species that suggests a common origin.
- An attraction or force between particles that causes them to combine, as the attraction between an antigen and an antibody.
Derived Forms
- afˈfinitive, adjective
Other Words From
- nonaf·fini·ty noun plural nonaffinities adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of affinity1
Example Sentences
Then I went to San Diego and started my first show at 21 at One America News, which has recently gotten a little bit more popular and some more headlines around it, of course, given the president’s affinity for it.
If affinity audiences are floating users whose attention towards your products may falter at times, custom affinity audiences are anchored to your company.
All those who place ads on Google are allowed to address their affinity audiences through Gmail, video, display, and search efforts.
This effect “was driven by their intolerance for incongruent comments rather than an elevated affinity for congruent comments,” the researchers wrote.
While this type of content doesn’t yield a huge amount of income in the short term, it does help to build brand affinity, and ultimately sales, in the long term.
He can use that affinity to build confidence for a Jacksonian approach to world chaos.
That affinity has to come from somewhere besides just the entertainment value.
How did it come to be then that she would feel an affinity for Aurora and start to care for her?
Where does your affinity for long, tracking shots come from?
Jokes aside, the folksy, blunt-talking Republican had a real affinity and passion for the issue.
Is there to be some mysterious affinity between chewing and the revolutions, especially the social revolutions of the future?
I don't doubt you will find more than one affinity if you are awakening; that is merely the mating instinct.
The striking resemblance of Kingia, in caudex and leaves, to Xanthorrhoea, cannot fail to suggest its affinity to that genus also.
Yet we are told that heat, motion, electricity and chemical affinity are the causes of mental and moral action.
In none of these particulars does man stand quite alone; in all of them an affinity with the lower animals exists.
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