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# affinity

«affinity» in Mova's school dictionary: **A natural liking for or feeling of understanding with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (affinity, affinities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A natural liking for or feeling of understanding with someone or something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affinity/#m1)

2) A close likeness or connection between things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affinity/#m2)

3) (science) A tendency of substances to join or react with each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affinity/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday and story use, a person «has an affinity for» animals or music. In science, chemicals have an affinity. Phrases: «an affinity for/with», «feel an affinity».

### examples

- She has a real affinity for horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affinity/#x1)
- I felt an affinity with the lonely boy in the book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affinity/#x2)
- There is an affinity between the two languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affinity/#x3)
- Water has an affinity for salt, which dissolves in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affinity/#x4)
- He had an affinity with numbers from a young age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affinity/#x5)
- The two artists share an affinity of style. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affinity/#x6)

### note

Countable and uncountable; usually «affinity for» or «affinity with». Formal, but common in writing. Do not confuse with «infinity».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «affinity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affinity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.