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Affinity

noun

(pl. affinities)

(immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody.

(anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship.

(biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts. Synonym: phylogenetic relation.

A close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character. Synonym: kinship. "Felt a deep kinship with the other students" , "Anthropology's kinship with the humanities"

The force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule. Synonym: chemical attraction.

Inherent resemblance between persons or things.

A natural attraction or feeling of kinship. "The mysterious affinity between them" , "James's affinity with Sam"

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"Affinity" Quotes from Famous Books

... flesh and sweating horsehide, and Bough Van Busch longed to, but dared not sneeze. Bits of mortar fell about him, and dislodged tarantulas galloped over his boots. He shook the loathsome, hairy, bright-eyed insects off, shuddering at them with a horror somewhat misplaced, considering the affinity between ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... An affinity of like-mindedness grew up between Spalton and this intense, homely woman, Dorothy ... whose face, like that of all clever, homely women, grew to a beauty in his eyes, that mere beauty which ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... natural affinity subsisted between this people and the Greenlanders, the brethren commenced their labors here in 1752. This attempt failed; but, in 1770, a settlement was effected at Nain, by the agency of Messrs. ...

— The Book of Religions • John Hayward

... the Hartford convention, prophesied that in time the West would dominate the East. "At the adoption of the Constitution," they said, "a certain balance of power among the original states was considered to exist, and there was at that time and yet is among those parties a strong affinity between their great and general interests. By the admission of these [new] states that balance has been materially affected and unless the practice be modified must ultimately be destroyed. The Southern states will first avail themselves ...

— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

... put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; ...

— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)

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