affinity

affinity has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between.
• n.. Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages.
• n.. Companionship; acquaintance.
• n.. 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.
• n.. A relation between species or highe/ groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.
• n.. 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.
• n.. a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; "an affinity for politics"; "the mysterious affinity between them"; "James's affinity with Sam"
• n.. inherent resemblance between persons or things
• n.. the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule; "basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk"
• n.. (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
• n.. a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character; "found a natural affinity with the immigrants"; "felt a deep kinship with the other students"; "anthropology's kinship with the humanities"
• n.. (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"