affinity
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From Old French affinité.
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affinity (plural affinities)
- A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
- A family relationship through marriage of a relative, as opposed to consanguinity. (e.g. sister-in-law).
- The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
- Any romantic relationship.
- Any passionate love for something.
- (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
- The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
[edit] Translations
natural attraction for something
family relationship through marriage of a relative
kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship
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passionate love for something