affinity
ਨੇੜਤਾ
definition
noun
he has an affinity for the music of Berlioz
a spontaneous or natural liking or sympathy for someone or something.
example
In its scale and some of its details Smith's building has an 'affinity' to Richardson's 1875-1876 Hayden Building in Boston.
His employers realized his natural 'affinity' for creating interesting smokes and immediately suspended all his other duties in favor of research.
Teenagers have a natural 'affinity' with the colour black as it saves having to change clothes everyday and time spent on needlessly choosing which outfit to wear today.
Dresser's style was never dictated by dogmatic theories, but had a general 'affinity' to the art of the early English Middle Ages and also suggested his admiration for Asian art.
He showed a special 'affinity' for the understanding and performance of the music of Rachmaninoff.
He was most at home when working on the land and had a natural 'affinity' with country people.
Relational proximity is shaped by cultural 'affinity' and facilitated by spatial and institutional proximity.
Peoples with no particular 'affinity' toward each other are bound together in a state that was largely externally created and not the outcome of local political processes.
Yet she is also conscious of her own gypsy blood, of her 'affinity' with these creatures.
He had a natural 'affinity' with the tribe and would never miss an opportunity to be with them, interact with them and frequently get into discussions with them.
They have a natural 'affinity' with traditional country music which is the kind I do in my show.
For someone with such an 'affinity' for the natural world, it's not surprising to discover that another passion of Baxter is conservation.
The researcher suggested a close 'affinity' to Tetraodontiformes, although this idea has not been generally accepted.
Use of the same island at the same time and the synchronization of seasonal and annual movements were not directly linked to any social 'affinity' between the two individuals.
he has an 'affinity' for the music of Berlioz
Early Carboniferous coral faunas of the block have a strong Eurasian 'affinity' , with two recognized coral faunas from two ecological facies having been recognized.
When the divalent cation dissociates from actin, the 'affinity' of actin for nucleotide is greatly reduced.
Croats also began to look to Serbs and other southern Slavs as people with whom they shared a linguistic and cultural 'affinity' .
Related to this notion of communal 'affinity' is ‘social closure’.
All investigated specimens show a remarkable 'affinity' to D. (A.) tyrolensis.
However, many states only punished relationships between first cousins and closer, and others only punished relationships of consanguinity, but not 'affinity' .
Ten years later, the two women meet at their children's school and find that they have a natural 'affinity' for one another.
This time round, her verse resonates with her strokes on canvas and though this has not been deliberate, there is, as she admits, a natural 'affinity' between the two.
the distinction between kinship and 'affinity' is not always clear-cut
The bulk of local people were from the same Pashtun tribal stock as the Afghans of Kandahar and Jalalabad, and they felt close cultural and tribal 'affinity' with those over the border.
In the context of the 'affinity' of hemoglobin for oxygen there are four primary regulators, each of which has a negative impact.
There is, or ought to be, a natural 'affinity' between community supported radio stations and community supported farms.
Our data do not pose any reason to suspect that we deal with gadolinium complexes of variable valence or that the 'affinity' of binding sites changes with their density or occupancy.
There are hints of 'affinity' in the terms used for these partnerships: baere is also romantic partner and kale is a term for spouse.
She had a natural 'affinity' with the country way of life and she relished the various tasks synonymous with the changing seasons.
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