Both Uses
affinity
in
The Da Vinci Code
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- Francois Mitterrand had an affinity for Egyptian culture that was so all-consuming that the French still referred to him as the Sphinx.†
Chpt 3 *
- His lifelong affinity for bachelorhood and the simple freedoms it allowed had been shaken somehow...replaced by an unexpected emptiness that seemed to have grown over the past year.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(affinity) a natural attraction, sympathy, or important similarity
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Affinity is also used technically to describe physical attractions such as between atoms or antigens and antibodies.