Druther vs Affinity - What's the difference?
druther | affinity |
(rare)
* 2004 , Sherry H. Penney, James D. Livingston, A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women's Rights ,
(US, informal, often jocular) Would rather; would prefer to.
* 1884 , ,
* 1903 , ,
A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity. (e.g. sister).
A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
* 1997 , Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865):
Any romantic relationship.
Any passionate love for something.
(taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
(geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
(chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
(medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
(computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
(geometry) An automorphism of affine space.
As nouns the difference between druther and affinity
is that druther is (rare) while affinity is a natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.As a verb druther
is (us|informal|often jocular) would rather; would prefer to.druther
English
Noun
(en noun)- The teacher told Martha that she had invited a neighboring planter to send his children to her school, but "he said 'Me & my wife had no eddication, nor any of my gals, but I would rather they never would have any, than go to school with niggers.' So he had his druther !"48
Usage notes
* The plural form druthers (which see also) is much more common.Verb
(head) (no infinitive, tenses, or participles)- I'd druther stay home today.
- We druther go swimming than go to school.
- The old gentleman was for going along with me, but I said no, I could drive the horse myself, and I druther he wouldn't take no trouble about me.
- "He's no slouch at dog-breakin', that's wot I say," one of the men on the wall cried enthusiastically.
- "Druther break cayuses any day, and twice on Sundays," was the reply of the driver, as he climbed on the wagon and started the horses.
affinity
English
Noun
(wikipedia affinity) (affinities)- A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities' — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.