affinity

affinity
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. liking, attraction; relation, similarity.Ant., aversion, disparity.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [Natural liking or attraction]
Syn. fondness, liking, sympathy, proclivity; see affection 1 , agreement 2 , inclination 1 .
2. [Family relationship]
Syn. kinship, relation, relationship, bond, tie, connection, consanguinity, alliance, blood tie, association, attachment, union, propinquity, relationship by marriage, interconnection, parentage, fraternity, strain, lineage, heritage, agnation, cognation, breed, stock, affiliation.
3. [Attractive force]
Syn. attraction, magnetism, magnetization, ionization, appetency, combining power, instability, susceptibility, attractivity, elective affinity, chemical affinity, valence.
4. [Similarity]
Syn. likeness, resemblance, correspondence; see similarity .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n.
[uh FIN uh tee]
attraction, liking. Also, a close relationship or similarity between things.
Children have a natural affinity for junk food. There was a peculiar affinity between Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun.
SYN.:
1. relationship connection, resemblance, likeness, kinship, compatibility, similarity.
2. liking, attraction fondness, inclination, bent, predilection, affection, leaning, partiality, fancy, penchant.
ANT.: 1. dissimilarity. 2. repulsion, aversion
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being alike: alikeness, analogy, comparison, correspondence, likeness, parallelism, resemblance, similarity, similitude, uniformity, uniformness. See SAME.

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