meaning of affinity
1. Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wifes blood relations, or between a wife and her husbands blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between.
2. Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages.
3. Companionship; acquaintance.
4. 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. A relation between species or highe/ groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.
6. 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.
7. a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; "an affinity for politics"; "the mysterious affinity between them"; "Jamess affinity with
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