AFFINITY

Affinity

In canon law, affinity is an impediment to the marriage of a couple due to the relationship which the parties to a prospective or existing marriage have to each other as a result of a kinship relationship created by another marriage or as a result of out of marriage intercourse. The relationships that give raise to the impediment have varied over time, and there are varied views between various Christian denominations as to which relationships result in an impediment to marriage. Marriages and sexual relations between people in an affinity relationship are regarded as incestuous.

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affinity

Noun

  1. A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
  2. A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity. (e.g. sister).
  3. A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
  4. The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
  5. Any romantic relationship.
  6. Any passionate love for something.
  7. resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
  8. structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
  9. An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
  10. The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
  11. tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
  12. An automorphism of affine space.


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