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English

Etymology


Pronunciation

  • WEAE: /ʌ.fɛk.ʃən/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-affection.ogg


Noun

  1. The act of affect|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. :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
  6. Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. --Dunglison.


Translations

Note: The verb affect has so many meanings that giving translations for the act of affecting and the state of being affected often makes no sense as a dozen different verbs may be required to cover affect in another language.

Synonyms


Category:Emotions

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English affection \af*fec"tion\ ([a^]f*f[e^]k"sh[u^]n), n. [F.
affection, L. affectio, fr. afficere. See Affect.]
1. The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being
affected.
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2. (Philosophy) An attribute, especially a contingent or
alterable quality or property; a condition; a bodily
state; as, figure, weight, etc., are affections of bodies.
"The affections of quantity." --Boyle.
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And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less,
An old and strange affection of the house.
--Tennyson.
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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.
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Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as
a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any
object or quality. --Cogan.
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4. A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender
attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to,
but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial,
social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for
or towards children.
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All his affections are set on his own country.
--Macaulay.
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5. Prejudice; bias. [Obs.] --Bp. Aylmer.
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6. (Med.) Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary
affection. --Dunglison. AS
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7. The lively representation of any emotion. --Wotton.
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8. Affectation. [Obs.] "Spruce affection." --Shak.
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9. Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.]
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Most wretched man,
That to affections does the bridle lend. --Spenser.
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Syn: Attachment; passion; tenderness; fondness; kindness;
love; liking; good will. See Attachment; Disease.
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WordNet affection
n : a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the
affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"
[syn: affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart,
warmheartedness]
Moby Dictionary
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 , 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


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).
AFFECTION, contracts. The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assure the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service. Techn. Diet.
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