Usually means: Attraction or natural liking for something.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. affinity: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. affinity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. affinity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. affinity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. affinity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Affinity, affinity: Wordnik
  7. affinity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. affinity: Wiktionary
  9. affinity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. affinity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. affinity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. affinity: Dictionary.com
  13. affinity: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  15. Affinity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. affinity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. affinity: Rhymezone
  18. affinity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. affinity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. affinity: Free Dictionary
  21. affinity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. affinity: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. affinity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  24. affinity: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. affinity: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Affinity (law), affinity: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Affinity (chemistry), affinity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Affinity: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Affinity: Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry
  5. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Affinity (chemistry), affinity: Medical dictionary
  8. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)
  9. Affinity: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affinity: Idioms

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Affinity: Easton Bible
  2. Affinity (in Canon Law), Affinity (in the Bible): Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Affinity: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Affinity: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Affinity: Medicinal Chemistry

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affinity: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
noun:  A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
noun:  A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
noun:  The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
noun:  Any romantic relationship.
noun:  A love interest; a paramour.
noun:  Any passionate love for something.
noun:  (taxonomy) Resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.
noun:  (geology) Structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
noun:  (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds.
noun:  (medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
noun:  (computing) A tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses.
noun:  (geometry) An automorphism of affine space.

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