affinity
A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
Other meanings
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.
Related words
- bioaffinity
- chemoaffinity
- equiaffinity
- hydroaffinity
- immunoaffinity
- lipoaffinity
- metalloaffinity
- microaffinity
- nonaffinity
- photoaffinity
- affinitive
- disaffinity
Word history
From Old French "affinité".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “affinity” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.