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Words Described by "Affection"

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. great
  2. deep
  3. natural
  4. mutual
  5. much
  6. real
  7. strong
  8. warm
  9. parental
  10. genuine

Hypernyms (Type of)

  1. feeling

What Google Knows

Affection or fondness is a "disposition or state of mind or body" commonly linked to a feeling or type of love. It has led to multiple branches in philosophy and psychology that discuss emotion, disease, influence, and state of being.

Related Definition

  1. affection:

    n The act of affecting or acting upon.

    n The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.

    n An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.

    n An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.

    n A feeling of love or strong attachment.

    n (medicine, archaic) A disease; a morbid symptom; a malady.

    v (now rare) To feel affection for.


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