Usually means: Natural attraction or inclination toward.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. affinities: Merriam-Webster
  2. affinities: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. affinities: Collins English Dictionary
  4. affinities: Vocabulary.com
  5. Affinities, affinities: Wordnik
  6. affinities: Wiktionary
  7. affinities: Dictionary.com
  8. Affinities: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Affinities: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Affinities: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. affinities: FreeDictionary.org
  12. affinities: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. affinities: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. affinities: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affinities: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. affinities: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. affinities: Medical dictionary

(Note: See affinity as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (affinity)

noun:  A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
noun:  A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
noun:  A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
noun:  The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
noun:  Any romantic relationship.
noun:  A love interest; a paramour.
noun:  Any passionate love for something.
noun:  (taxonomy) Resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.
noun:  (geology) Structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
noun:  (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds.
noun:  (medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
noun:  (computing) A tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses.
noun:  (geometry) An automorphism of affine space.
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