Affinity
Af`fin´i`ty
| n. | 1. | |
| 1. | Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); - in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; - followed by with, to, or between. |
| 2. | Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages. |
| 2. | Companionship; acquaintance. |
| 4. | (Chem.) That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction. |
| 5. | (Nat. Hist.) A relation between species or higher groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin. |
| 6. | (Spiritualism) A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction. |
AFFINITY. A connexion formed by marriage, which places the husband in the
same degree of nominal propinquity to the relations of the wife, as that in
which she herself stands towards them, and gives to the wife the same
reciprocal connexion with the relations of the husband. It is used in
contradistinction to consanguinity. (q.v.) It is no real kindred.
2. Affinity or alliance is very different from kindred. Kindred are
relations. by blood; affinity is the tie which exists between one of the
spouses with the kindred of the other; thus, the relations, of my wife, her
brothers, her sisters, her uncles, are allied to me by affinity, and my
brothers, sisters, &c., are allied in the same way to my wife. But my
brother and the sister of my wife are not allied by the ties of affinity:
This will appear by the following paradigms
My wife's father ---|
| |
| |
-----------------| |
| | |-- are all allied to me.
Ego ----- My Wife My wife's sister ---|
| |
My wife's niece ---|
My wife's father ---|
My Father | | |My brother
| | | |and my wife's
| | | |sister are
|---------------| |----------| |not allied
| | | | |to each other
My brother Ego ---- My wife, My wife's sister |
3.
A person cannot,
by legal succession,
receive an inheritance from a
relation by affinity;
neither does it extend to the nearest relations of
husband and wife,
so as to create a mutual relation between them.
The
degrees of affinity are computed in the same way as those of consanguinity.
See Pothier,
Traite du Mariage,
part 3,
ch.
3,
art.
2,
and see 5 M.
R.
296;
Inst.
1,
10,
6;
Dig.
38,
10,
4,
3;
1 Phillim.
R.
210;
S.
C.
1 Eng.
Eccl.
R.
72;
article Marriage.
a thing for,
accord,
accordance,
addition,
adduction,
adjunct,
affairs,
affiliation,
agape,
agreement,
alikeness,
alliance,
allurement,
amity,
analogy,
approximation,
aptitude,
aptness,
assemblage,
assent,
association,
attractance,
attraction,
attractiveness,
attractivity,
bag,
bent,
bias,
bond,
bonds of harmony,
brotherly love,
capillarity,
capillary attraction,
caritas,
cast,
cement of friendship,
centripetal force,
charity,
chorus,
chosen kind,
chumminess,
closeness,
coherence,
coincidence,
combination,
communion,
community,
community of interests,
comparison,
compatibility,
conatus,
concert,
concord,
concordance,
conduciveness,
conformance,
conformation,
conformity,
congeneracy,
congeniality,
congruence,
congruency,
congruity,
connateness,
connaturality,
connaturalness,
connature,
connectedness,
connection,
consistency,
consonance,
consort,
contiguity,
contrariety,
cooperation,
correspondence,
cup of tea,
dealings,
deduction,
delight,
diathesis,
disjunction,
disposition,
drag,
draw,
druthers,
eagerness,
empathy,
equivalence,
esprit,
esprit de corps,
familiarity,
family connection,
family favor,
family likeness,
fancy,
fascination,
favor,
feeling for,
feeling of identity,
fellow feeling,
fellowship,
filiation,
fondness,
frictionlessness,
friendliness,
generic resemblance,
good vibes,
good vibrations,
gravitation,
gravity,
happy family,
harmony,
homology,
identity,
inclination,
inseparableness,
intercourse,
intersection,
intimacy,
intimate acquaintance,
junction,
kinship,
leaning,
liability,
liaison,
like-mindedness,
liking,
link,
linkage,
linking,
love,
magnetism,
marital affinity,
marriage connection,
marriage relationship,
mateyness,
mutual affinity,
mutual attraction,
mutuality,
nearness,
oneness,
overlap,
palliness,
parallelism,
partiality,
particular choice,
peace,
penchant,
personal choice,
predilection,
predisposition,
preference,
prejudice,
prepossession,
probability,
proclivity,
proneness,
propensity,
propinquity,
proximity,
pull,
pulling power,
rapport,
rapprochement,
readiness,
reciprocity,
relatedness,
relation,
relations,
relationship,
resemblance,
self-consistency,
semblance,
sensitivity to,
sharing,
similarity,
simile,
similitude,
soft spot,
solidarity,
special affinity,
style,
susceptibility,
symmetry,
sympathy,
symphony,
sync,
synchronism,
tally,
taste,
team spirit,
tendency,
thing,
tie,
tie-in,
timing,
traction,
tropism,
tug,
turn,
twist,
type,
understanding,
uniformity,
union,
unison,
unisonance,
unity,
warp,
weakness,
willingness