AFFINITY

affinity

(noun) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; “an affinity for politics”; “the mysterious affinity between them”; “James’s affinity with Sam”

affinity

(noun) inherent resemblance between persons or things

affinity, chemical attraction

(noun) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule; “basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk”

affinity

(noun) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody

affinity, kinship

(noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character; “found a natural affinity with the immigrants”; “felt a deep kinship with the other students”; “anthropology’s kinship with the humanities”

affinity, phylogenetic relation

(noun) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts; “in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans”

affinity

(noun) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

affinity (countable and uncountable, plural affinities)

A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.

A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).

A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.

The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.

Any romantic relationship.

Any passionate love for something.

(taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.

(geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.

(chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds

(medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen

(computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses

(geometry) An automorphism of affine space.

Hyponyms

• microaffinity

Source: Wiktionary

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Af*fin"i*ty, n.; pl. Affinities(#). Etym: [OF. afinité, F. affinité, L. affinites, fr. affinis. See Affined.]

1. 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. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.

2. Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages. There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity. Sir G. C. Lewis.

2. Companionship; acquaintance. [Obs.] About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. Burton.

4. (Chem.)

Definition: 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.

5. (Nat. Hist.)

Definition: A relation between species or highe

6. (Spiritualism)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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