Affinity

"Affinity" in German

Affinität

(natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing)

Affinität

(chemistry: attraction between atoms)

Affinität

(medicine: attraction between an antibody and an antigen)

Schwägerschaft

(family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity)

Verwandtschaft

(family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.