affinity

Main Entry:
affinity [uh-fin-i-tee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: liking or inclination toward something
Synonyms: affection, attraction, closeness, compatibility, cotton, cup of tea, druthers, fondness, good vibrations, leaning, partiality, rapport, same wavelength, simpatico, sympathy, thing*, weakness*
Notes: an affinity is a relationship by marriage and consanguinity is a blood relationship
Antonyms: dislike, hatred
Main Entry: agreement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: concurrence
Synonyms: acceding, accession, accommodation, accord, accordance, acknowledging, adjustment, affiliation, affinity, alliance, amity, approving, arbitration, arrangement, assenting, authorizing, bargaining, compatibility, compliance, complying, compromise, concert, concession, concord, concordance, concurring, conformity, congruity, consistency, correspondence, endorsing, granting, harmony, mediation, ratifying, reconciliation, similarity, suitableness, sympathy, understanding, union, unison, verification, verifying
Antonyms: disagreement
Main Entry: alliance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: friendly association, agreement
Synonyms: accord, affiliation, affinity, betrothal, bond, coalition, coherence, collaboration, collusion, combination, communion, compact, concord, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, fraternization, friendship, interrelation, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, mutuality, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union
Antonyms: antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war
Main Entry: analogy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: agreement, similarity
Synonyms: affinity, alikeness, comparison, correlation, correspondence, equivalence, homology, likeness, metaphor, parallel, relation, relationship, resemblance, semblance, simile, similitude
Notes: analogy is when two different things share characteristics that lead to a comparison between them; an analogue is one of the things compared
Antonyms: disagreement, dissimilarity, unlikeness
Main Entry: attachment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: affection, high regard
Synonyms: affinity, amore, attraction, bond, case, crush, devotion, fidelity, fondness, friendship, hankering*, liking, love, loyalty, partiality, possessiveness, regard, shine*, tenderness, weakness, yen*
Antonyms: alienation, animosity, aversion, dislike, divorce, enmity, estrangement, hate, hatred, opposition
Main Entry: belonging
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sense of security in friendship
Synonyms: acceptance, affinity, association, attachment, inclusion, kinship, loyalty, rapport, relationship
Antonyms: antipathy, insecurity
Main Entry: bond
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: association, relation
Synonyms: affiliation, affinity, attachment, connection, connective, friendship, hookup, interrelationship, liaison, link, marriage, network, obligation, relationship, restraint, tie, tie-in, union
Main Entry: community
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: agreement, similarity
Synonyms: affinity, identity, kinship, likeness, sameness, semblance
Antonyms: disagreement, dissimilarity
Main Entry: compatibility
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: harmony in relationship
Synonyms: affinity, agreeableness, agreement, amity, congeniality, congruity, consonance, empathy, fit, like-mindedness, rapport, single-mindedness, sympathy, unity
Antonyms: disharmony, incompatibility
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