Affinity - English meaning

Affinity – definitions in English dictionary

noun
A natural liking for and understanding of someone or something.
Usage examples:
He had a special affinity with horses
Synonims:
Empathy Rapport Sympathy Accord Harmony Like-mindedness Closeness to Fellow feeling for Understanding of Liking for Fondness for Inclination towards Partiality for Penchant for Predilection t
noun
The degree to which a substance tends to combine with another.
Usage examples:
The bacterial proteins bind to these molecules with high affinity

Affinity translation into English

Affinity: translate from English into Chinese

亲和力, 姻亲, 近似, 姻亲关系

Affinity: translate from English into Dutch

Affiniteit, Verwantschap, Overeenkomst

Affinity: translate from English into French

Affinité, Rapport, Attirance

Affinity: translate from English into German

Affinität, Verwandtschaft, Beziehung, Ähnlichkeit, Seelenverwandtschaft

Affinity: translate from English into Hindi

आत्मीयता, संबंध, आकर्षण, समानता, लगाव, मेल

Affinity: translate from English into Italian

Affinità, Parentela

Affinity: translate from English into Korean

유연, 인척 관계, 밀접한 관계, 애호, 맞는 성질

Affinity: translate from English into Russian

Близость, Сродство, Сходство, Аффинитет, Родственность, Влечение, Привлекательность, Родовое сходство, Духовное родство, Взаимная склонность, Свойство

Affinity: translate from English into Spanish

Afinidad, Atractivo

Word origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘relationship by marriage’): via Old French from Latin affinitas, from affinis ‘related’ (literally ‘bordering on’), from ad- ‘to’ + finis ‘border’.

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Affinity – similar words

affined

adjective
Related or connected.
Usage examples:
These findings were largely confirmed for oas-tl in the plant cysteine synthase complex, where sat …

Affined - all meanings in English

affine

adjective
Allowing for or preserving parallel relationships.
Usage examples:
Using parallelograms to define affine transformations may be a mixed blessing.

noun
A relative by marriage.
Usage examples:
They were sisters, mothers, daughters, affines, rather than simply women in groups.

Affine - all meanings in English

affination

noun
The process of refining (precious) metal, especially by treatment with hot concentrated sulphuric acid.

noun
The initial process in the refining of sugar whereby raw sugar crystals are treated with a warm syrup to remove the thin layer of molasses.

Affination - all meanings in English

affinal

adjective
Concerning or having a family relationship by marriage.
Usage examples:
Most cases illustrated here concern fine-tuning of the affinal category in such a way that it is po…

adjective
By marriage
Usage examples:
Affinal relatives, affinal ties

Affinal - all meanings in English

Affinity synonims

accord

verb
Give or grant someone (power, status, or recognition).
Usage examples:
The powers accorded to the head of state

noun
An official agreement or treaty.
Usage examples:
Opposition groups refused to sign the accord

noun
A formal agreement, or the condition of agreeing
Usage examples:
[ c ] both parties signed an accord last week in geneva that may finally bring an end to the confli…

Accord - all meanings in English

empathy

noun
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Usage examples:
He has a total lack of empathy for anybody

noun
The ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person’s situation
Usage examples:
He loves children and has a certain empathy with them.

Empathy - all meanings in English

harmony

noun
The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce a pleasing effect.
Usage examples:
The piece owes its air of tranquillity largely to the harmony

noun
Notes that are played or sung with the main tune and that make the piece more complicated and interesting
Usage examples:
He imagined a society in which all races lived together in harmony.

noun
The situation in which people live or work happily together without any big problems
Usage examples:
Social/racial/political harmony

Harmony - all meanings in English

rapport

noun
A close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.
Usage examples:
She was able to establish a good rapport with the children

noun
Agreement or sympathy between people or groups
Usage examples:
She has a good rapport with her staff.

Rapport - all meanings in English

sympathy

noun
Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
Usage examples:
They had great sympathy for the flood victims

noun
A feeling or expression of understanding and caring for someone else who is suffering or has problems that have caused unhappiness
Usage examples:
When robert died, i sent a letter of sympathy to his wife., she tends to be in sympathy with the le…

noun
The act of showing understanding for someone or for a particular situation
Usage examples:
Sympathy for sb the prime minister expressed his sympathy for those injured in the attacks., have g…

Sympathy - all meanings in English

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