🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

친밀감

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chin-mil-gam

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Affinity/əˈfɪn.ə.ti/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 한국 문화에 대한 강한 친밀감을 느꼈다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A spontaneous or natural liking or sympathy for someone or something.

    "She felt a deep affinity for the quiet and creative atmosphere of the coastal town."
  2. 2

    A close relationship or similarity between two things based on shared characteristics or structure.

    "Scientists discovered a strong chemical affinity between the two elemental compounds."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'affinitas', meaning relationship by marriage or neighborhood, coming from 'affinis' (bordering on, related), composed of 'ad-' (to) and 'finis' (boundary, border). Over centuries, the term shifted from denoting a legal or marital relationship to describing a natural liking, attraction, or structural similarity between things.

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