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affinity

English

  1. 🔊 a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
    “an affinity for politics”
  2. 🔊 inherent resemblance between persons or things
  3. 🔊 the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule
    “basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk”
  4. 🔊 (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
  5. 🔊 a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
    “found a natural affinity with the immigrants”
  6. 🔊 (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”
  7. 🔊 (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption

Spanish

  1. 🔊 afinidad affinity
  2. 🔊 apegamiento affinity

Similar words

chemical attraction kinship phylogenetic relation a thing for accord accordance addition adduction adjunct affairs affiliation agape agreement alikeness alliance allurement amity analogy approximation aptitude aptness assemblage assent association