Synonyms for attachment
əˈtætʃ məntat·tach·ment

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1. attachment

   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, affection, 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.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. attachment, fond regardnoun

   a feeling of affection for a person or an institution

   Synonyms:
   adherence, bond, affixation, fastening, adhesion, fond regard

2. attachmentnoun

   a supplementary part or accessory

   Synonyms:
   adherence, bond, affixation, fastening, adhesion, fond regard

3. attachmentnoun

   a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding

   Synonyms:
   adherence, bond, affixation, fastening, adhesion, fond regard

4. attachment, bondnoun

   a connection that fastens things together

   Synonyms:
   bail bond, bond certificate, adhesiveness, affixation, fastening, adherence, shackle, hamper, alliance, fond regard, bond paper, adhesion, bail, chemical bond, trammel, bond

5. attachment, adherence, adhesionnoun

   faithful support for a cause or political party or religion

   "attachment to a formal agenda"; "adherence to a fat-free diet"; "the adhesion of Seville was decisive"

   Synonyms:
   affixation, adherence, bond, fastening, adhesiveness, adhesion, fond regard

6. attachment, affixationnoun

   the act of attaching or affixing something

   Synonyms:
   adherence, bond, affixation, fastening, adhesion, fond regard

7. fastening, attachmentnoun

   the act of fastening things together

   Synonyms:
   affixation, fastener, adherence, fixing, bond, fastening, holdfast, adhesion, fond regard

Matched Categories

1. • Addition
   • Combination
   • Connection
   • Joining
   • Law
   • Writ

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. attachmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   love, liking, regard, affection, friendship, fondness, predilection, devotedness, devotion, adhesion, adherence

2. attachmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   adjunct, appendage, appurtenance, addition, addendum

3. attachmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) seizure, distress

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1. attachmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   devotedness, devotion, adherence, adjunct appendage, appurtenance, seizure, distress

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "attachment":

   enclosure, accessory, attachments, annex, commitment, appendix, fixation, garnishment, seizure, accesory, appliance, fixing, mounting, adhesion, adherence, annexes

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How to use attachment in a sentence?

1. Marcus Aurelius:

   Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold? Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone.

2. Bhagavad Gita:

   On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

3. Andrew Soloman, “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression”, on his belief that grief is profoundly important for the human cond:

   I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

4. Steve Maraboli:

   Attachment is the still water in which the mosquitoes of stress grow."

5. C. C. Colton:

   The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.