The phrase "a close affinity to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a strong connection or relationship between two entities, ideas, or individuals.
Example: "The artist has a close affinity to nature, which is reflected in her paintings."
Alternatives: "a strong connection to" or "a deep bond with".
Originally a lyric poet, Tunström wrote prose rich in fantasy and humour and with a close affinity to music, as in Juloratoriet (1983; The Christmas Oratorio).
Today, there are an estimated 100 major tribes, 25 tribal confederations and several hundred cohesive clans in Iraq, and experts estimate that perhaps 40percentt of Iraqis still feel a close affinity to their tribes.
The choreographers -- among them, Keely Garfield, the duo Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner, Susan Rethorst, Donna Uchizono, and Susan Marshall -- may not know it, absorbed as they are in the traditions of modern dance, but their play with the everyday has a close affinity to the conversational dances that Jerome Robbins made uptown with the New York City Ballet.
At a given strain, the proportion of low angle grain boundaries (LAGBs) shows a close affinity to the Zener Hollomon parameter (Z) and the relation can be expressed as LAGBs% = (−10.2 ± 5) + 4 log Z, which well describes the relation between the deformed microstructure and deformation parameters.
"Especially someone who has a close affinity to the club and who spent nine good years of their career there". Portsmouth have been in administration since February 2012 and are said to be £61m in debt.
Collagen and other natural biomaterials in the extracellular matrix have roles as structural proteins and have a close affinity to cells, but they do not do well in cell retention [2, 3].
And they make clear which one they believe has a closer affinity to the United States.
The actor Danny Dyer has discovered he is related to two English kings, but said he feels a closer affinity to another blood connection unearthed by researchers, Henry VIII's adviser and fixer Thomas Cromwell.
This species displays a mitochondrial genome that seems intermediate between those of the C and E genomes [90] and, based on data from nuclear markers, has a closer affinity to O. eichingeri collected in Sri Lanka than to O. eichingeri collected in Africa [91], [92].
This group of locusts has a closer affinity to the outgroup, the African migratory locust, than the other two groups, and shows a strong within-group divergence pattern.
For reasons that are not fully clear, teleost pou2 was recently renamed pou5f1 despite multiple pieces of evidence for a closer affinity to POU2 orthologs of tetrapods.
