Word Meanings - AFFINITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) 1. Relationship by marriage

Additional info about word: AFFINITY

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. (more info) 1. 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. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1. 2. Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages. There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity. Sir G. C. Lewis. 2. Companionship; acquaintance. About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. Burton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AFFINITY)

• Analogy
• Relation
• resemblance
• proportion
• similarity
• similitude
• coincidence
• affinity
• comparison
• parity
• Connection
• Junction
• junction
• union
• association
• concatenation
• relation
• relevance
• intercourse
• communication
• Unarm an
• relationship
• kindred
• reference
• aspect
• connection
• narration
• bearing
• homogeneity
• relevancy
• pertinency
• fitness
• harmony
• ratio
• relative
• agreement
• kinsman
• appurtenancy

Related words: (words related to AFFINITY)

• RATIOCINATE
  To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.
• RATIONALIZATION
  The act or process of rationalizing.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• RATIONALISTIC; RATIONALISTICAL
  Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism. -- Ra`tion*al*is"tic*al*ly, adv.
• RATIOCINATION
  The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
• FITNESS
  The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• HOMOGENEITY
  See HOMOGENEOUSNESS
• NARRATION
  That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject. Syn. -- Account; recital; rehearsal; relation; description; explanation; detail; narrative; story; tale;
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• RATION
  1. A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence. Note: Officers have several rations, the number varying according to their rank or the number of their attendants. 2. Hence,
• UNARMED
  Having no hard and sharp projections, as spines, prickles, spurs, claws, etc. (more info) 1. Not armed or armored; having no arms or weapons.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• INTERCOURSE
  A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• PROPORTION
  1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• MIGRATION
  The act of migrating.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• COMMISERATION
  The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy.
• DEDECORATION
  Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
• INCARCERATION
  1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• EXULCERATION
  1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• IRRATIONAL
  Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.