Affection

Noun

 * 1) The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
 * 2) An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc., are affections of bodies.
 * 3) Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency.
 * 4) A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment
 * 5)  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. --Dunglison.

Verb

 * 1) to feel an affection, emotion or love for.

Adjectives for Affection
warm; enthusiastic; filial; reciprocal;  hysterical;  nervous;  natural;  tepid;  responsive;  divine;  purest; maternal; tender; intense; spasmodic; inordinate ; domestic; dutiful; crushed; subtle; heartwarming; admiring; paternal; over-flowing; sympathetic; ludicrous; disappointed; unreciprocated; mutual; demonstrative; indiscriminating;  mature; pious; wifely; unrequited;  pastoral; temperate; inflammatory; untried; brotherly; peremptory; tempestuous; rabid; conjugal; well-grounded; doglike; overbrimming; sweet-toned; grateful; impulsive; healthful; involuntary; rational;  perishable;  playful;  forced;  respectful;  ancient; concrete; trustful; over-strained; passionate;  connubial; hollow; vulgar; vile; pretended; boundless;  irrepressible;  delirious;  lasting;  tacit;  disinterested; sound; profound; nobler; generous; unreasoning; gleeful; coarse; tolerant; doubtful; confessed; foolish; blighted; wavering; long-suffering; stifled; sincere; beautiful; intimate; thoughtful; extreme; sheer; naive; frank; chaste; physical; unbounded; proud;  tenacious;  priceless; violent; immortal; sworn; zealous; sublime; sweet; sentimental;  critical;  undying; revived; ephemeral; embedded; calm; chilled; obvious;  airy;  childish;  fastidious; quaint; aristocratic;  stiff;  awkward; disagreeable; languid; teasing; absurd;  spruce; showy; deliberate;  injudicious;  comical;  patent; true-hearted; dramatic;

Verbs for Affection
advert to -; alienate -; analyze; arouse; attach - to; awaken -; bear -; betoken -; bind by -; bless with -; blind by -; breed -; capture -; chain with -; coerce -; compel -; contain -; crave -; deflect -; demand -; denote -; desire -; detect -; disclose -; display -; earn -; eat up -; elicit -; enforce -; engage -; exempt from -; express - for; feed upon -; force -; gain -; impair -; impress by -; influence -; inspire with -; join in -; kindle -; lend -; manifest -; meet the demands of -; motivate by -; object to -; oppose -; overrule by -; pledge -; pour forth -; preserve -; pretend to -; produce -; promote -; regain -; regard with -; remove -; restrain -; reveal -; scatter -; sense -; shun -; speak -; starve for -; steal -; swear -; temper -; tender -; thwart -; transfer -; transplant -; uproot -; wean from -; weigh -; wrestle with -; - alternates; - bursts out; - ceases; - gets out of bounds; - grows; - links together; - prevails; - spreads; - springs from; - strays; - sways; - thickens; - turns; - warms; - wavers.

Synonyms for Affection
attachment, fondness, good will, kindness, love, passion, tenderness, friendship, friendliness, solicitude.

Antonyms for Affection
dislike, unkindness, ill-will, aversion, animosity, antipathy.

Thesaurus
penchant; physical love; plant disease; popular regard; popularity; predilection; presentiment; profound sense; propensity; property; protozoan disease; psychosomatic disease; rapture; reaction; regard; relish; respiratory disease; response; rockiness; romanticism; savor; secondary disease; seediness; sensation; sense; sensibilities; sentiment; sentimentality; sentiments; sex; sexiness; sexual love; shine; sickishness; sickness; signs; spell; spiritual love; susceptibilities; susceptibility; sympathies; sympathy; symptomatology; symptomology; symptoms; syndrome; taste; tender feeling; tender passion; tender susceptibilities; tenderness; the pip; trait; truelove; turn; undercurrent; urogenital disease; uxoriousness; virtue; virus disease; warmth; wasting disease; weakness; worm disease; worship; yearning, Amor; Christian love; Eros; Platonic love; abnormality; access; acute disease; admiration; adoration; adore; affect; affectionateness; affections; affective faculty; affectivity; affliction; agape; ailment; allergic disease; allergy; amativeness; amorousness; ardency; ardor; atrophy; attachment; attack; attention; attribute; bacterial disease; bent; bias; birth defect; blight; bodily love; brotherly love; cardiovascular disease; caritas; character; characteristic; charity; chronic disease; circulatory disease; complaint; complication; concern; condition; congenital defect; conjugal love; crush; defect; deficiency disease; deformity; degenerative disease; demonstrativeness; derangement; desire; devotion; disability; disease; disorder; distemper; disturbance; doting; ecstasy; emotion; emotional charge; emotional life; emotional shade; emotions; enchantment; endemic; endemic disease; endocrine disease; enjoying; epidemic disease; experience; faculty; faithful love; fancy; feature; feeling; feeling tone; feelings; fervor; finer feelings; flame; fondness; foreboding; free love; free-lovism; functional disease; fungus disease; gastrointestinal disease; genetic disease; goatishness; goodwill; gust; gusto; gut reaction; handicap; heart; heartthrob; hereditary disease; hero worship; high regard; horniness; iatrogenic disease; idolatry; idolism; idolization; ill; illness; impression; indisposition; infatuation; infectious disease; infirmity; interest; lasciviousness; leaning; libido; like; likes; liking; love; lovelornness; lovemaking; lovesickness; malady; malaise; mark; married love; morbidity; morbus; muscular disease; neurological disease; nutritional disease; occupational disease; organic disease; pandemic disease; paroxysm; passion; passions; pathological condition; pathology;

Derived terms

 * affectional
 * affectionate
 * affectionated


 * affectionately
 * affectionateness
 * affectioned

Related terms

 * affect
 * affectation


 * affecter
 * affective