affinity group
English
Noun
affinity group (plural affinity groups)
- A formal or informal group of people formed around a shared interest or common goal.
- 2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 August 2025:
- But in my corner of the app — the fans and critics who gathered to riff on TV and the real-life events that filtered through it — it feels like the end of an era. Even the finale of “Succession,” a big deal among my affinity group of TV junkies and media obsessives, felt like a trickle next to the big tweetwatches of the 2010s.
Further reading
- “affinity group”, in Merriam-Webster Online, Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1996–present.