(chemistry, obsolete) The tendency of a substance to combine with some specific substances more readily than others. / (dated) The feeling of being attracted to or sympathetic with someone or something.

Having the right to elect oneself.

(clinical psychology, psychiatry) Dated form of selective mutism (“A severe anxiety disorder characterized by a total inability to speak in some social settings”). In the past, some clinicians erroneously believed that individuals with elective mutism chose to remain silent in some social situations as an act of defiance. Contrary to what was once believed, the inability to speak (mutism) is involuntary, thus the potentially misleading term elective mutism has largely been supplanted by selective mutism.

An election, usually held at regular intervals, in which candidates are elected in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a nation. / (Cockney rhyming slang) An erection.

(US) An election held every four years to elect members of Congress in years the president is not also elected.

plural of midterm election

An election in which a political party makes major gains.

plural of wave election

Able to be re-elected

The condition of being re-electable