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Affection

see synonyms of affection

Noun

1. affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness

a positive feeling of liking

Example Sentences:
'he had trouble expressing the affection he felt'
'the child won everyone's heart'
'the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Affection

see synonyms of affection
noun
1. 
a feeling of fondness or tenderness for a person or thing; attachment
2. (often plural)
emotion, feeling, or sentiment
to play on a person's affections
3. pathology
any disease or pathological condition
4. psychology
any form of mental functioning that involves emotion
See also affect1 (sense 2)
5. 
the act of affecting or the state of being affected
6. archaic
inclination or disposition

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Affection

see synonyms of affection
noun
1. 
a mental or emotional state or tendency; disposition or feeling
2. 
fond or tender feeling; warm liking
3. 
an affecting or being affected
4.  Archaic
a disease; ailment
5.  Archaic
an attribute or property of a thing

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Affection

see synonyms of affection
n.
1. A tender feeling toward another; fondness.
2. often affections Feeling or emotion: an unbalanced state of affections.
3. A disposition to feel, do, or say; a propensity.
4. Obsolete Prejudice; partiality.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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