FromMiddle Englishaffinite, fromOld Frenchaffinité. Ostensibly equivalent toaffine +-ity.
affinity (countable anduncountable,pluralaffinities)
- A naturalattraction or feeling ofkinship to a person or thing.
- A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g.sister-in-law), as opposed toconsanguinity (e.g.sister).
- Akinsman orkinswoman of a such relationship; one who isaffinal.
- Thefact of andmanner in which something isrelated to another.
1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, inRailway Magazine, number600, page273: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 closeraffinity with the Doncaster designs than with any other.
1997, Chris Horrocks, “Introducing Foucault”, inThe Renaissance Episteme, Totem Books, Icon Books,→ISBN, page67:A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate theiraffinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing wasguessing andinterpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
- Any romantic relationship.
- A love interest; aparamour.
1916 August,The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page248, column 3:"Cut it short, sis, cut it short," he would growl at her if she started to murmur sweet "coo-coos" to heraffinity stationed on the other end of the wire.
- Any passionate love for something.
- (taxonomy)Resemblances betweenbiologicalpopulations, suggesting that they have a commonorigin, type orstock.
- (geology)Structural resemblances betweenminerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
- (chemistry) Anattractiveforce betweenatoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their formingbonds.
- (medicine) The attraction between anantibody and anantigen
- (computing) A tendency to keep atask running on the same processor in asymmetricmultiprocessing operating system to reduce thefrequency ofcache misses.
- (geometry) Anautomorphism ofaffinespace.
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)
- Dutch:welgezindheid (nl) f,affiniteit (nl)
- Esperanto:afineco
- 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
- 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
- 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
