English Dictionary

elective affinity

名詞

廃用 古風

(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.

日本語の意味

（化学的、古い用法）物質が、他の物質よりも特に特定の物質と結合しやすい性質・傾向 / （時代遅れの用法）誰か、または何かに引かれる、または共感を覚える感情・傾向

The historian of science noted that 19th-century chemists often referred to elective affinity when explaining why one substance would displace another.

科学史家は、19世紀の化学者たちが、ある物質が特定の物質とより容易に結合する傾向を、ある物質が別の物質を置き換える理由を説明するときによく用いていたと指摘した。

意味（1）

(chemistry, obsolete) The tendency of a substance to combine with some specific substances more readily than others.

Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft, who has explored the gravity of atoms and the elective affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement, namely, that like draws to like; and that the goods which belong to you, gravitate to you, and need not be pursued with pains and cost?

意味（2）

(dated) The feeling of being attracted to or sympathetic with someone or something.

Matrimony was not a matter of elective affinity between two persons seeking to spend their lives agreeably and profitably in common, so much as an institution used by the state for raising vigorous recruits for the national army.

意味（3）

(sociology) 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.

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.

elective affinities （ plural ）