Analogy vs Affinity - What's the difference?
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A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
* 1841 , , Essays: First Series , ch. 6:
* 1869 , , The Uncommercial Traveller , ch. 18:
* 1901 , , The Valley of Decision , ch. 12:
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* 2002 , , Gone for Good , ISBN 9780440236733,
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 analogy and affinity
is that analogy is a relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation while affinity is a natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.analogy
English
(wikipedia analogy)Noun
(analogies)- Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
- Is there any analogy , in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?
- The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.
How to Write Programs," Time , 3 Jan.:
- Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simple analogy : hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it.
p. 75:
- A kid living on the street is a bit like — and please pardon the analogy here — a weed.
Derived terms
* disanalogy * false analogySee also
* metaphor * simile * example * homology * parable * parallelism English words prefixed with ana-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.