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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "affection":

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

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How to use affection in a sentence?

1. Alejandro Fernandez:

   To die on stage is to take to the grave what you most love in this life, your presence, your affection, your respect and your applause.

2. Josiah Gilbert Holland:

   The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

3. Rod Rosenstein:

   Notwithstanding my personal affection for Director Comey, I thought it was appropriate to seek a new leader.

4. Herbert Hensley Henson:

   Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church they suspect and dislike the clergy they are impatient of theological systems but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection.

5. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   The free pen, prone to pour out the suggestions of artless affection, vivid imagination, or domestic anecdote, is as much woman's especial instrument as the needle.