Both Uses of
affinity
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- Even now they resist affinity like cats in a bag: two blondes—the one short and fierce, the other tall and imperious—flanked by matched brunettes like bookends, the forward twin leading hungrily while the rear one sweeps the ground in a rhythmic limp.†
Chpt 1 *
- They engaged a powerful affinity with their habitat and their food chain.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(affinity) a natural attraction, sympathy, or important similarity
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Affinity is also used technically to describe physical attractions such as between atoms or antigens and antibodies.