Synonyms for affection
əˈfɛk ʃənaf·fec·tion

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1. affectionnoun

   Kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; settled good will.

   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

   Synonyms:
   attachment, passion, fondness, tenderness, kindness, love

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. affection

   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, attachment, 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.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. affection

   Synonyms:
   influence, condition, state, inclination, bent, mood, humor, feeling, love, desire, propensity

   Antonyms:
   insensibility, indifference, repugnance, disaffection, repulsion

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philianoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   rawness, partiality, affectionateness, substance, philia, meat, centre, lovingness, center, tenderness, core, marrow, sum, nerve, ticker, warmth, fancy, nub, kernel, nitty-gritty, spirit, softheartedness, gist, tenderheartedness, warmness, inwardness, pith, heart, bosom, pump, essence, mettle, warmheartedness, heart and soul, fondness, soreness, spunk, eye, middle

Matched Categories

1. • Feeling

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. affectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   feeling, passion, inclination, propensity, bent, bias, turn of mind, cast or frame of mind

2. affectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   attribute, quality, property, accident, modification, mode

3. affectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   love, heart, attachment, kindness, partiality, fondness, liking, tenderness, endearment, regard, good-will, tender passion

4. affectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) disorder, malady, disease

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1. List of paraphrases for "affection":

   condition, ailment, sympathy, tenderness, love, disorder, warmth, disease

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1. Marco Rubio:

   I will always have tremendous affection and respect for him despite the fact that -- because of a weird quirk of fate -- we ended up running for the same office at the same time, i did not run for president to stop Jeb Bush. I ran for president because I believe that America's greatest days lie ahead if we do what needs to be done right now in 2016.

2. Fake Quote:

   You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection The above quote does not seem to be said by Buddha

3. Lewis Thomas:

   We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

4. James Henry Leigh Hunt:

   Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

5. Craig Haney:

   People have to structure their lives around the absence of other human beings, they [prisoners in solitary confinement] go for years on end without touching anyone with affection.