affinity group

English

Noun

affinity group (plural affinity groups)

  1. 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.

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