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English
Etymology
From Middle English affinite, from Old French affinité. Ostensibly equivalent to affine + -ity. See also af-.
Pronunciation
Noun
affinity (countable and uncountable, plural affinities)
- A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
- Synonym: kindred
- A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
- A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
- The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:There are, of course, certain differences of detail; for example, the placing of the safety valves on the boiler barrel behind the dome, which follows the practice in the Riddles 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 locomotives for the Ministry of Supply; but taken all in all, Britannia's boiler has a closer affinity with the Doncaster designs than with any other.
1997, Chris Horrocks, “Introducing Foucault”, in The Renaissance Episteme, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 67:A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
- Any romantic relationship.
- A love interest; a paramour.
1916 August, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 248, column 3:"Cut it short, sis, cut it short," he would growl at her if she started to murmur sweet "coo-coos" to her affinity stationed on the other end of the wire.
- Any passionate love for something.
- (taxonomy) Resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.
- (geology) Structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
- (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds.
- (medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
- (computing) A tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses.
- (geometry) An automorphism of affine space.
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Translations
natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing
- Bhojpuri: आत्मीयता (ātmīyatā)
- Catalan: afinitat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 親和力 / 亲和力 (zh) (qīnhélì)
- Danish: affinitet c, tilknytning c
- Dutch: welgezindheid (nl) f, affiniteit (nl)
- Esperanto: afineco
- Finnish: yhteys (fi), läheisyys (fi)
- French: affinité (fr) f
- German: Affinität (de) f
- Hindi: आत्मीयता (hi) (ātmīytā)
- Hungarian: affinitás (hu), érzék (hu), fogékonyság (hu)
- Indonesian: afinitas (id)
- Japanese: アフィニティ (afiniti), 親和性 (しんわせい, shinwasei)
- Latin: affīnitās f
- Luxembourgish: Affinitéit f
- Polish: bliskość (pl) f
- Portuguese: afinidade (pt) f
- Romanian: afinitate (ro) f
- Russian: бли́зость (ru) f (blízostʹ), сродство́ (ru) n (srodstvó), влече́ние (ru) n (vlečénije), тя́га (ru) f (tjága), схо́дство (ru) n (sxódstvo) (similarity)
- Serbo-Croatian: afinìtēt (sh) m, sklȍnōst (sh) f
- Spanish: afinidad (es) f, apegamiento m, inhesión f
- Swedish: affinitet (sv)
- Turkish: alaka (tr), ilgi (tr)
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family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship the fact of and manner in which something is related to another passionate love for something taxonomy: resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock geology: structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type chemistry: attraction between atoms medicine: attraction between an antibody and an antigen
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