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.
• FITNESS
  The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
• RATIOCINATION
  The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
• 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
  produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold
• 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.