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affinity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of affinity

1 a habitual attraction to some activity or thing

  • always had an affinity for nurturing living things
Synonyms of affinity

affection, aptitude, bent, bias, bone, devices, disposition, genius, habitude, impulse, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn
Words Related to affinity

favor, one-sidedness, partisanship, prejudice

endowment, faculty, flair, genius, gift, knack, talent

addiction, appetite, fancy, fondness, like, liking, preference, taste

forte, speciality, specialty

convention, custom, habit, pattern, practice (also practise), routine, trick, way, wont

eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, kink, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity
Near Antonyms of affinity

allergy, averseness, aversion, disfavor, disinclination, dislike, disliking, disrelish, distaste

detachment, impartiality, neutrality, objectivity

apathy, disinterestedness, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern

2 the fact or state of having something in common

  • a study showing an affinity between obesity and socioeconomic status
Synonyms of affinity

association, bearing, connection, kinship, liaison, linkage, relation, relationship
Words Related to affinity

correlation, interrelation

materiality, pertinence, relevance

bond, link, tie

affiliation, alliance, union

identicalness, sameness

alikeness, community, likeness, resemblance, similarity

accordance, agreement, conformity, congruity, correspondence
Near Antonyms of affinity

variability, variance

incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness

Synonym Discussion of affinity

attraction, affinity, sympathy mean the relationship existing between things or persons that are naturally or involuntarily drawn together. attraction implies the possession by one thing of a quality that pulls another to it.
    • felt an attraction to danger
affinity implies a susceptibility or predisposition on the part of the one drawn.
    • an affinity for mathematics
sympathy implies a reciprocal or natural relation between two things that are both susceptible to the same influence.
    • two minds in sympathy

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