Definition:
- (n.) Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between.
- (n.) Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages.
- (n.) Companionship; acquaintance.
- (n.) That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.
- (n.) A relation between species or highe/ groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.
- (n.) A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.
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affinitive vs. affinity
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affinity vs. harmony
affinity vs. fidelity
affinity vs. fondness
affinity vs. love
affinity vs. efficacy
affinity vs. closeness
affection vs. affinity
affinity vs. proclivity
affinity vs. sympathy
affinity vs. akin
affinity vs. analogous
affinity vs. sympathetically
affinity vs. penchant
affinity vs. ardent
affinity vs. hydrophobic
affinal vs. affinity
affinity vs. relationship
affinity vs. sib
affinity vs. cache
affinity vs. frequency
affinity vs. symmetric
affinity vs. task
affinity vs. bond
affinity vs. atom
affinity vs. force
affinity vs. attractive
affinity vs. stock
affinity vs. mineral
affinity vs. origin
affinity vs. population
affinity vs. resemblance
affinity vs. relate
affinity vs. manner
affinity vs. fact
affinity vs. kinswoman
affinity vs. kinsman
affinity vs. sister
affinity vs. kinship
affinity vs. attraction
affinity vs. alliance
affinity vs. identify
affinity vs. consanguinity
affinity vs. link
affinity vs. kin
affinity vs. dye
affinity vs. substantive