- (n.) Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors or of languages.
- (n.) Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to or between.
- (n.) A relation between species or highe/ groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.
- (n.) Companionship; acquaintance.
- (n.) That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.
- (n.) A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, especially persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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