'Affection' definitions:
Definition of 'affection'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia]
Definition of 'affection'
From: Easton
- Affection feeling or emotion. Mention is made of "vile affections" (Rom. 1:26) and "inordinate affection" (Col. 3:5). Christians are exhorted to set their affections on things above (Col. 3:2). There is a distinction between natural and spiritual or gracious affections (Ezek. 33:32).
Synonyms of 'affection'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormality,
- access,
- acute disease,
- admiration,
- adoration,
- adore,
- affect,
- affectionateness,
- affections,
- affective faculty,
- affectivity,
- affliction,
- agape,
- ailment,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- amativeness,
- Amor,
- 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,
- Christian love,
- 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,
- Eros,
- 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,
- penchant,
- physical love,
- plant disease,
- Platonic love,
- 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