Synonyms for affections
af·fec·tions

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1. List of paraphrases for "affections":

   feelings

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1. Louise Erdrich:

   Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

3. George Eliot:

   Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

4. William Shakespeare:

   The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

5. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.