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A process by which two cultural forms (e.g. religious, intellectual, political or economic) having certain similarities or kinships enter into a relationship of reciprocal attraction and influence, and mutual reinforcement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
Examples
- 2000, Milton Fisk, Toward a Healthy Society: The Morality and Politics of American Health Care Reform, Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, Chapter 8, pp. 196-197, Weber spoke of an elective affinity between a form of religious belief (Protestantism) and a practical ethics (the work ethic of capitalism). His idea can be extended to explain how different groups come to have a basis for entering a single party.
Meaning relationships
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The feeling of being attracted to or sympathetic with someone or something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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Meaning relationships
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The tendency of a substance to combine with some specific substances more readily than others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: elective attraction
Antonyms: none provided
Calque of German Wahlverwandtschaft.
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Finnish:
vaaliheimolaisuus
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French:
affinité élective
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German:
Wahlverwandtschaft
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Polish:
powinowactwo chemiczne
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