elective affinity

短语

[医] 选择性亲[和]力

词形变化

elective affinities 复数 elective affinities

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

    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.

  2. 2.

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

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  3. 3.

    The tendency of a substance to combine with some specific substances more readily than others.

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词源

Calque of German Wahlverwandtschaft.

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