affinities
Bonds between kindred
Affinities are natural attractions or connections between things.
A person may have an affinity for languages, meaning they learn them easily and enjoy them.
Chemical substances with affinity for each other bond readily.
The word often implies something deeper than preference—a sense of kinship or inherent compatibility: She felt immediate affinities with her new colleagues.
In biology, affinities indicate evolutionary relationships between species.
Likeness between things
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
- parallelismMatching structural elements
- analogyExplanatory likeness between things
equivalence · similitude · alikeness · commonality · relatedness · connection · kindredness · sameness
Agreement or musical blend
- alignmentCorrect relative positioning
- congruenceState of agreement
- accordHarmony between parties
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
coherence · matching · suitability · interoperability · fittingness · consistency · agreement · integration
Related people together
- relativesThose connected by blood
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
lineage · heritage · kindred · tribe · consanguinity · genealogy · connection · bond
Force between poles
- allureAttractive, tempting quality
- charmAttractive personal quality
- pullForce toward oneself
- drawCreate with pencil
appeal · fascination · gravitation · enticement · lure · enchantment · captivation · desirability
resemblance
Likeness between things
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
- parallelismMatching structural elements
analogy · equivalence · similitude · alikeness · commonality · relatedness · connection · kindredness · sameness · comparability
harmony
Agreement or musical blend
- alignmentCorrect relative positioning
- congruenceState of agreement
- accordHarmony between parties
correspondence · coherence · matching · suitability · interoperability · fittingness · consistency · agreement · integration · synchronization
family
Related people together
- relativesThose connected by blood
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
clan · lineage · heritage · kindred · tribe · consanguinity · genealogy · connection · bond · ties
magnetism
Force between poles
draw · appeal · fascination · gravitation · enticement · lure · enchantment · captivation · desirability · seduction
bonding
Forming close connections
- valenceCombining power measure
- covalentSharing electrons between atoms
- ionicConcerning charged particles
electronegativity · molecular · electron · orbital · reactivity · ligand · substrate · receptor · chelation · adsorption
- connectionslink, links, connect, connection, tie
- preferencespreferences, prefer, likes, like, liking
affinitiesrepulsions
Acts of driving away
aversions · antipathies · dislikes · revulsions · loathings
affinitiesalienations
Emotional separations from others
estrangements · incompatibilities · disconnections · discordances · mismatches
affinitiesdifferences
Ways things aren't alike
dissimilarities · disparities · divergences · unlikenesses · foreignness