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affinity.

A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.

8 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/əˈfɪnɪti/
  1. A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.

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  2. A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).

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  3. A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.

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  4. The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.

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  5. Any romantic relationship.

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  6. A love interest; a paramour.

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  7. Any passionate love for something.

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  8. Resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.

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  9. Structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.

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  10. An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds.

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  11. The attraction between an antibody and an antigen

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  12. A tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses.

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  13. An automorphism of affine space.

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Where this word comes from

From Middle English affinite, from Old French affinité. Ostensibly equivalent to affine + -ity. See also af-.

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