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Another word for affinity

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affinity

n.

Natural liking or attraction
fondness, liking, sympathy, proclivity; see affection 1, agreement 2, inclination 1.
Family relationship
kinship, relation, relationship, bond, tie, connection, consanguinity, alliance, blood tie, association, attachment, union, propinquity, relationship by marriage, interconnection, parentage, fraternity, strain, lineage, heritage, agnation, cognation, breed, stock, affiliation.
Attractive force
attraction, magnetism, magnetization, ionization, appetency, combining power, instability, susceptibility, attractivity, elective affinity, chemical affinity, valence.
Similarity
likeness, resemblance, correspondence; see similarity.

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Another word for affinity

noun

The quality or state of being alike:

alikeness, analogy, comparison, correspondence, likeness, parallelism, resemblance, similarity, similitude, uniformity, uniformness. See same

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Some people have a natural affinity with children.
The affinity for the fourth oxygen to bind is approximately 300 times that for the first.
He had an affinity for opioid receptors and a slow dissociation from them.
The metal possesses a strong affinity with gold, silver, platinum, and precious stones.
It meshed well with Russia's traditional primary focus on relations with the United States and was reinforced by apparent ideological affinity.

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