Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chemistry

3 senses of chemistry

Sense 1
chemistry, chemical science -- (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
       => natural science -- (the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena)

Sense 2
chemistry -- (the chemical composition and properties of a substance or object; "the chemistry of soil")
       => substance -- (the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists; "DNA is the substance of our genes")

Sense 3
chemistry, interpersonal chemistry, alchemy -- (the way two individuals relate to each other; "their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other"; "a mysterious alchemy brought them together")
       => social relation -- (a relation between living organisms (especially between people))