"Deep affinity" refers to a strong connection or bond between people, ideas, or objects. It highlights a profound sense of understanding, compatibility, or similarity that exists between two or more entities. Full definition
I think that I was born with a kind of deep affinity for the rural, the rustic. (bookbrowse.com)
But unfortunately the other contributions, different as they were in style and subject, betrayed deep affinities with Miss Kandel's paper. (newcriterion.com)
While acknowledging certain deep affinities between his own thought and Bergson's, Hausman still claims that Bergson does not give sufficient importance to the role of conceptualization to the recognition of Form and structure in the identification of radical newness (82). (religion-online.org)