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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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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