Affinity

Noun

 * 1) A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
 * 2) A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity. (e.g. sister).
 * 3) A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
 * 4) The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
 * 5) Any romantic relationship.
 * 6) Any passionate love for something.
 * 7)  resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
 * 8)  structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
 * 9)  An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
 * 10)  The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
 * 11)  tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses

Adjectives for Affinity
peculiar; commercial; elective; natural; uncanny; temperamental; secret.

Thesaurus
a thing for; accord; accordance; addition; adduction; adjunct; affairs; affiliation; agape; agreement; alikeness; alliance; allurement; amity; analogy; approximation; aptitude; aptness; assemblage; assent; association; attractance; attraction; attractiveness; attractivity; bag; bent; bias; bond; bonds of harmony; brotherly love; capillarity; capillary attraction; caritas; cast; cement of friendship; centripetal force; charity; chorus; chosen kind; chumminess; closeness; coherence; coincidence; combination; communion; community; community of interests; comparison; compatibility; conatus; concert; concord; concordance; conduciveness; conformance; conformation; conformity; congeneracy; congeniality; congruence; congruency; congruity; connateness; connaturality; connaturalness; connature; connectedness; connection; consistency; consonance; consort; contiguity; contrariety; cooperation; correspondence; cup of tea; dealings; deduction; delight; diathesis; disjunction; disposition; drag; draw; druthers; eagerness; empathy; equivalence; esprit; esprit de corps; familiarity; family connection; family favor; family likeness; fancy; fascination; favor; feeling for; feeling of identity; fellow feeling; fellowship; filiation; fondness; frictionlessness; friendliness; generic resemblance; good vibes; good vibrations; gravitation; gravity; happy family; harmony; homology; identity; inclination; inseparableness; intercourse; intersection; intimacy; intimate acquaintance; junction; kinship; leaning; liability; liaison; like-mindedness; liking; link; linkage; linking; love; magnetism; marital affinity; marriage connection; marriage relationship; mateyness; mutual affinity; mutual attraction; mutuality; nearness; oneness; overlap; palliness; parallelism; partiality; particular choice; peace; penchant; personal choice; predilection; predisposition; preference; prejudice; prepossession; probability; proclivity; proneness; propensity; propinquity; proximity; pull; pulling power; rapport; rapprochement; readiness; reciprocity; relatedness; relation; relations; relationship; resemblance; self-consistency; semblance; sensitivity to; sharing; similarity; simile; similitude; soft spot; solidarity; special affinity; style; susceptibility; symmetry; sympathy; symphony; sync; synchronism; tally; taste; team spirit; tendency; thing; tie; tie-in; timing; traction; tropism; tug; turn; twist; type; understanding; uniformity; union; unison; unisonance; unity; warp; weakness; willingness

Etymology
From affinité.

Derived terms

 * microaffinity

Translations

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 * Spanish: afinidad


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 * Croatian:
 * Finnish: viehtymys


 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: afinidad


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: affiniteetti