Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

affinitive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: affini-tive
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Closely connected, as by affinity.

adj

Tending to bond with.

Example Sentences

"Subjects were selected on the basis of 'affinitive' relationships, a notion which is defeined by Maisonneuve (1966; Maisonneuve & Lamy, 1993) as reciprocal choices associated with shared emotional satisfaction."
"They also speak of the sun's forces roking on the earth's affinitive forces."
"The presence in the blood and fluids of the body of the dominant toxin, for which strophanthin is chemically affinitive, debilitiates the contractile force of muscle, and more especially unstriped muscle fibre."

Etymology

From affinity + -ive.

Inflected Forms

more affinitive (comparative) most affinitive (superlative)

Derived Forms

nonaffinitive

Frequently Paired Words

affinitative

Questions

What does affinitive mean?: Closely connected, as by affinity.
Where does affinitive come from?: From affinity + -ive.

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