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In law and in cultural anthropology, affinity, as distinguished from consanguinity, is kinship by marriage. It is the relation which each party to a marriage bears to the kindred of the other. In English, affinity is usually signified by adding "-in-law" to the degree of kinship.

[edit] See also

• Affinity (canon law)
• Consanguinity

[edit] References

• See Affinity (In the Bible) an article from the Catholic Encyclopedia
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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