elective affinity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A process by which two cultural forms (e.g. religious, intellectual, political or economic) having certain similarities or kinships enter into a relationship of reciprocal attraction and influence, and mutual reinforcement.
The feeling of being attracted to or sympathetic with someone or something.
The tendency of a substance to combine with some specific substances more readily than others.

elective affinity elective affinities

Calque of German Wahlverwandtschaft.

elective attraction

valence

Finnish: vaaliheimolaisuus French: affinité élective German: Wahlverwandtschaft Polish: powinowactwo chemiczne

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