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Synonyms for affection
əˈfɛk ʃənaf·fec·tion

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Wiktionary4.0 / 1 vote

  1. affectionnoun

    Kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; settled good will.

    Usage note: often in the plural; formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or toward(s); as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children

    Synonyms:
    attachment, passion, fondness, tenderness, kindness, love

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. affection

    An attachment is a feeling that binds a person by ties of heart to another person or thing; we speak of a man's adherence to his purpose, his adhesion to his party, or to anything to which he clings tenaciously, tho with no special tenderness; of his attachment to his church, to the old homestead, or to any persons or objects that he may hold dear. Affection expresses more warmth of feeling; we should not speak of a mother's attachment to her babe, but of her affection or of her devotion. Inclination expresses simply a tendency, which may be good or bad, yielded to or overcome; as, an inclination to study; an inclination to drink. Regard is more distant than affection or attachment, but closer and warmer than esteem; we speak of high esteem, kind regard. Compare ACQUAINTANCE; APPENDAGE; FRIENDSHIP; LOVE; UNION.

    Synonyms:
    adherence, adhesion, attachment, devotion, esteem, esteem, estimation, friendship, inclination, love, regard, tenderness, union

    Antonyms:
    alienation, animosity, antipathy, aversion, coolness, dislike, distance, divorce, enmity, estrangement, indifference, opposition, repugnance, separation, severance

    Preposition:
    Attachment of a true man to his friends; attachment to a leader for his nobility of character; the attachments between two persons or things; attachment by muscular fibers, or by a rope, etc.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. affection

    Synonyms:
    influence, condition, state, inclination, bent, mood, humor, feeling, love, desire, propensity

    Antonyms:
    insensibility, indifference, repugnance, disaffection, repulsion

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

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

    a positive feeling of liking

    "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"

    Synonyms:
    rawness, partiality, affectionateness, substance, philia, meat, centre, lovingness, center, tenderness, core, marrow, sum, nerve, ticker, warmth, fancy, nub, kernel, nitty-gritty, spirit, softheartedness, gist, tenderheartedness, warmness, inwardness, pith, heart, bosom, pump, essence, mettle, warmheartedness, heart and soul, fondness, soreness, spunk, eye, middle

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. affectionnoun

    Synonyms:
    feeling, passion, inclination, propensity, bent, bias, turn of mind, cast or frame of mind

  2. affectionnoun

    Synonyms:
    attribute, quality, property, accident, modification, mode

  3. affectionnoun

    Synonyms:
    love, heart, attachment, kindness, partiality, fondness, liking, tenderness, endearment, regard, good-will, tender passion

  4. affectionnoun

    Synonyms:
    (Med.) disorder, malady, disease

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "affection":

    condition, ailment, sympathy, tenderness, love, disorder, warmth, disease

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How to use affection in a sentence?

  1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

    Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

  2. Woody Johnson:

    I think it's been presented but I don't have any of the details right now. He's got a very, very big schedule...but we'd love to have him over here, his mother was born here so he has a great affection for this country.

  3. Lewis Thomas:

    We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

  4. Josiah Gilbert Holland:

    The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

  5. Kahlil Gibran:

    I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.


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