affinity

[ uh-fin-i-tee ]

nounliking or inclination toward something
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Word Origin & History

c.1300, "relation by marriage" (as opposed to consanguinity), from Old French afinité (12c.), from Latin affinitatem (nominative affinitas) "neighborhood, relationship by marriage," noun of state from affinis "adjacent," also "kin by marriage," literally "bordering on," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + finis "a border, an end" (see finish). Used figuratively since c.1600 of structural relationships in chemistry, philology, etc. Meaning "natural attraction" (as though by family) is from 1610s.

Example Sentences foraffinity

Why Venus ever in her prime, but because of her affinity with me?

He stared at it and the old feeling of affinity swept over him, stronger than ever.

I never heard that he had the least affinity for either of these dissipations.

A just government cannot be founded on force: for force has no affinity with justice.

But let me ask you another question: Has excess of pleasure any affinity to temperance?

If the good is there, so is the evil; if the affinity, so the repulsion; if the force, so the limitation.

Yet it is affinity that determines which two shall converse.

All of them are antagonistic to sense and have an affinity to number and measure and a presentiment of ideas.

The affinity of the Protagoras to the Meno is more doubtful.

It is firm water; it is cold flame; what health, what affinity!

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