Synonyms of the word affinity


AFFINITYATTRACTION - ATTRACTIVENESS - FORCE - KINSHIP - RELATION - RELATIONSHIP - RESEMBLANCE

affinity

  • n. A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
  • n. A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity…
  • n. A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
  • n. The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
  • n. Any romantic relationship.
  • n. Any passionate love for something.
  • n. (taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common…
  • n. (geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common…
  • n. (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming…
  • n. (medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen.
  • n. (computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating…
  • n. (geometry) An automorphism of affine space.

attraction

  • n. The tendency to attract.
  • n. The feeling of being attracted.
  • n. (countable) An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and in…
  • n. (chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.

attractiveness

  • n. (uncountable) The state of being attractive or engaging.
  • n. (countable) The result of being attractive.

force

  • n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
  • n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
  • n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
  • n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
  • n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
  • n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
  • n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
  • n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
  • n. (law) Legal validity.
  • n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
  • n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
  • n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
  • v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
  • v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
  • v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
  • v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
  • v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
  • v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
  • v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
  • v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
  • v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
  • v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
  • v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
  • n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
  • v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

kinship

  • n. relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.
  • n. relation or connection by nature or character.

relation

  • n. The manner in which two things may be associated.
  • n. A member of one's family.
  • n. The act of relating a story.
  • n. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
  • n. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
  • n. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
  • n. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
  • n. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
  • n. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

relationship

  • n. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
  • n. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
  • n. A romantic or sexual involvement.
  • n. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other.
  • n. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

resemblance

  • n. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
  • n. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
  • n. A comparison; a simile.
  • n. Probability; verisimilitude.

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