relationship vs affinity

affinity vs relationship

relationship and affinity both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
relationship	Yes	No	No	No
affinity	Yes	No	No	No

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

relationship: (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 relationship 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.

relationship (noun)	affinity (noun)
a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)	inherent resemblance between persons or things
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption	a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)	the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule
a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries	(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 relationship and affinity

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