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A natural attraction or feeling of kinship
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affinity
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "relation by marriage" (as opposed to consanguinity ), from Old French afinité (12c.), from Latin affinitatem (nominative affinitas ) "neighborhood, relationship by marriage," noun of state from affinis "adjacent," also "kin by marriage," literally ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Affinity is a 1999 historical fiction novel by Sarah Waters . It is the author's second novel, following Tipping the Velvet , and followed by Fingersmith .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES affinity card COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE binding ▪ Mammalian cell receptors can have high solute binding affinity , but also allow for rapid on/off binding kinetics. close ▪ The closer the affinity , the better ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attraction \At*trac"tion\, n. [L. attractio: cf. F. attraction.] (Physics) An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to ...
Usage examples of affinity.
Opening its affinity full, projecting a wordless shout of joy and sorrow over a spherical zone thirty astronomical units in radius.
Even though she was used to the degree of honesty which affinity fostered, Ruben always astounded her with his intimate knowledge of her emotional composition.
He and I are affinity bonded, which means I can quite literally smell out any scams you dickheads cook up.
My father had a lot of children by quite a number of women, and they all had the affinity gene, but they all left to become Edenists.
Joshua gazed at her levelly, remembering the didactic course he had taken on affinity and Edenist culture.
Supervisors and sheriffs using affinity was something he could never get used to.
Flying the predator via affinity was always an experience he enjoyed, the freedom granted to creatures of the air was unsurpassed.
In here, his body motionless, his affinity expanding his consciousness through bitek processors and incorporated brains, his mentality was raised by an order of magnitude.
Kiint could always use the human affinity band, but Edenists had found it almost impossible to sense any form of private Kiint communication.
I realized that as there was no limit to the number of operations which could be conducted, you could even have multiple independent units, bonded by affinity, and sharing a single identity.
One of the stones knocked heavily against his cranium, sending a shower of pain stars down the affinity link to daze Powel.
For a moment the affinity link wavered, and he saw a ring of villagers gazing down in dismay.
The fast affinity exchange which followed made Ione feel woefully inadequate.
There was a quiet background hum in the affinity band as the void-hawks conversed and exchanged astrogation updates.
Syrinx overheard a furious affinity conversation with the juvenile offenders.