association vs affiliation

association and affiliation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
association	Yes	No	No	No
affiliation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, affiliation is a hyponym of association; that is, affiliation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than association:

association: the act of consorting with or joining with others
affiliation: the act of becoming formally connected or joined

Other hyponyms of association include fraternisation, fraternization.

As nouns, association and affiliation are synonyms defined as:

association and affiliation: a social or business relationship

Other synonyms of association include tie-up, tie.

association (noun)	affiliation (noun)
the act of consorting with or joining with others	the act of becoming formally connected or joined
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination	a social or business relationship
a formal organization of people or groups of people
(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
a relation resulting from interaction or dependence
a social or business relationship
the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination

association vs affiliation

association and affiliation both are nouns.

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