Affinity vs. Consanguine — What's the Difference?

A natural attraction, liking, or feeling of kinship

Of the same lineage or origin; having a common ancestor.

A natural tendency or ability to use or do something

Related by birth or "by blood", i.e. having close ancestors in common.

A natural compatibility of one thing with another

A person related to another by birth.

Relationship by marriage

Related by blood; descended from a common ancestor; - used as a term of relation between two people.

An inherent similarity between persons or things

Having the same father but different mothers; - contrasted with uterine{2} and german.

(Biology) A relationship or resemblance in structure between species that suggests a common origin.

Related by blood

An attraction or force between particles or chemicals that causes them to combine.

The degree to which particles or chemicals are likely to combine

A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.

A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).

A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.

The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.

Any romantic relationship.

A love interest; a paramour.

Any passionate love for something.

(taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.

(geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.

(chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds

(medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen

(computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses

(geometry) An automorphism of affine space.

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.

Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages.

Companionship; acquaintance.

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.

A relation between species or higher groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.

A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

The force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule;

(immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody

Kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship

(biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts;

A close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character;

Inherent resemblance between persons or things

A natural attraction or feeling of kinship;