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Affinity vs. Penchant — What's the Difference?

Affinity vs. Penchant — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Affinity and Penchant

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Affinity

A natural attraction, liking, or feeling of kinship
A special affinity with animals.
A cultural affinity for the automobile.

Penchant

A definite liking; a strong inclination.

Affinity

A natural tendency or ability to use or do something
An affinity with languages.
An affinity for making money.

Penchant

Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
He has a penchant for fine wine.

Affinity

A natural compatibility of one thing with another
“the affinity of pork and shellfish” (Alison Arnett).
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Penchant

A card game resembling bezique.

Affinity

Relationship by marriage
Related by affinity to the wife.

Penchant

(card games) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.

Affinity

An inherent similarity between persons or things
“The genius of the Afro-Cubans lay in recognizing the affinity between swing-era jazz and their own tradition” (Gene Santoro).

Penchant

Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.

Affinity

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

Penchant

A game like bézique, or, in the game, any queen and jack of different suits held together.

Affinity

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

Penchant

A strong liking;
My own preference is for good literature
The Irish have a penchant for blarney

Affinity

The degree to which particles or chemicals are likely to combine
Hemoglobin has a high affinity for oxygen. Also called avidity.

Affinity

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

Affinity

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

Affinity

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

Affinity

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

Affinity

Any romantic relationship.

Affinity

A love interest; a paramour.

Affinity

Any passionate love for something.

Affinity

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

Affinity

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

Affinity

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

Affinity

(medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen

Affinity

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

Affinity

(geometry) An automorphism of affine space.

Affinity

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.

Affinity

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.

Affinity

Companionship; acquaintance.
About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer.

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.

Affinity

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

Affinity

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.

Affinity

The force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule;
Basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk

Affinity

(immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody

Affinity

Kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship

Affinity

(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

Affinity

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

Affinity

Inherent resemblance between persons or things

Affinity

A natural attraction or feeling of kinship;
An affinity for politics
The mysterious affinity between them
James's affinity with Sam

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