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kinship vs affinity

affinity vs kinship

kinship and affinity both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
kinship Yes No No No
affinity Yes No No No
As nouns, affinity is a hyponym of kinship; that is, affinity is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than kinship:
  • kinship: (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
  • affinity: (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts
Other hyponyms of kinship include phylogenetic relation, descent, filiation, line of descent, lineage, blood kinship, cognation, consanguinity, birth, parentage, fatherhood, paternity, maternity, motherhood, sisterhood, sistership, brotherhood, marital bed, marital relationship.
As nouns, kinship and affinity are synonyms defined as:
  • kinship and affinity: a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
kinship (noun) affinity (noun)
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption inherent resemblance between persons or things
a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule
(immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
(anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship
(biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts
a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
Difference between kinship and affinity

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