Affinity vs. Penchant
Affinitynoun
A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
Penchantnoun
Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
‘He has a penchant for fine wine.’;
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A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
Penchantnoun
A card game resembling bezique.
Affinitynoun
A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
Penchantnoun
(card games) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.
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The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
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Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.
Affinitynoun
Any romantic relationship.
Penchantnoun
A game like bézique, or, in the game, any queen and jack of different suits held together.
Affinitynoun
Any passionate love for something.
Penchantnoun
a strong liking;
‘my own preference is for good literature’; ‘the Irish have a penchant for blarney’;
Affinitynoun
(taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
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(geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
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(chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
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(medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
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(computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
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(geometry) An automorphism of affine space.
Affinitynoun
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.’;
Affinitynoun
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.’;
Affinitynoun
Companionship; acquaintance.
‘About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer.’;
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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.
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A relation between species or higher groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.
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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.
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the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule;
‘basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk’;
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(immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
Affinitynoun
kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship
Affinitynoun
(biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts;
‘in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans’;
Affinitynoun
a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character;
‘found a natural affinity with the immigrants’; ‘felt a deep kinship with the other students’; ‘anthropology's kinship with the humanities’;
Affinitynoun
inherent resemblance between persons or things
Affinitynoun
a natural attraction or feeling of kinship;
‘an affinity for politics’; ‘the mysterious affinity between them’; ‘James's affinity with Sam’;
