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[əˈfɪnɪti], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a natural liking for and understanding of someone or something
(e.g: he had a special affinity with horses)
- the degree to which a substance tends to combine with another
(e.g: the bacterial proteins bind to these molecules with high affinity)
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Origin
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Middle English (in the sense ‘relationship by marriage’): via Old French from Latin affinitas, from affinis ‘related’ (literally ‘bordering on’), from ad- ‘to’ + finis ‘border’
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