Dictionary

affinitive en · ADJ

Etymology

From affinity + -ive.

Meanings

1. Closely connected, as by affinity.
   • They also speak of the sun's forces roking on the earth's affinitive forces. 2011, Jack Churchward ·, Lifting the Veil on the Lost Continent of Mu:
   • 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. 2005, Eric Grillo, Power Without Domination, page 181:
2. Tending to bond with.
   • 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. 1907, James Burke, “Strophanthin”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 98, page 604:

Forms

Deriveds

nonaffinitive

Relateds

affinitative