Meaning of AFFINITY
| Pronunciation: | | u'finitee
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] inherent resemblance between persons or things
- [n] a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; "an affinity for politics"; "the mysterious affinity between them"; "James's affinity with Sam"
- [n] the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule; "basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk"
- [n] (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
- [n] 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"
- [n] (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"
- [n] kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship
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| | Synonyms: | | chemical attraction, kinship, kinship by marriage, phylogenetic relation |
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| | Antonyms: | | blood kinship, cognation, consanguinity | | |
| | See Also: | | attraction, attraction, attractive force, attractiveness, family relationship, force, rapport, relation, relationship, resemblance, resonance, steprelationship, sympathy | |
| Products Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | |  Affinity
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Af*fin"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Affinities}. [OF. afinit['e],
F. affinit['e], 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.
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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.) 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.) A relation between species or highe? groups
dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure,
and indicating community of origin.
6. (Spiritualism) 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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| | Definition: | | Attraction between particles or substances to other particles or substances. In biological and biochemical fields, this term generally is a measure of the attraction of one biological molecule toward another molecule (which can be organic or inorganic), either to alter it, destroy it, or form a compound with it. Examples are enzymes and their substrates, or antibodies and their antigens. |
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | relationship by alliance (2 Chr. 18:1) or by marriage (1 Kings 3:1). Marriages are prohibited within certain degrees of affinity, enumerated Lev. 18:6-17. Consanguinity is relationship by blood. |
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