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n. A tender feeling toward another; fondness. See Synonyms at love.

n. Feeling or emotion. Often used in the plural: an unbalanced state of affections.

n. A disposition to feel, do, or say; a propensity.

n. Obsolete Prejudice; partiality.

n. The act of affecting or acting upon.

n. The state of being affected.

n. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc., are affections of bodies.

n. 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.

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

n. Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. --Dunglison.

v. to feel an affection, emotion or love for.

n. The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.

n. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state.

n. Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; ; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency.

n. 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

n. Prejudice; bias.

n. Disease; morbid symptom; malady.

n. The lively representation of any emotion.

n. Affectation.

n. Passion; violent emotion.

n. The state of having one's feelings affected; bent or disposition of mind; phase of mental disposition; feeling.

n. A settled good will, love, or zealous attachment: as, the affection of a parent for his child: generally followed by for, sometimes by to or toward, before the object.

n. Natural instinct or impulse; sympathy.

n. Prejudice; bias.

n. A modification; the effect or result of action upon a thing; especially, in psychology, a passive modification of consciousness.

n. In metaphysics (translation of Gr. πάθος, suffering), one of those qualities of bodies by which they directly affect the senses: often improperly extended to other properties of bodies.

n. A disease, or the condition of being diseased; a morbid or abnormal state of body or mind: as, a gouty affection; hysteric affection.

n. In painting, a lively representation of passion. Wotton.

n. Affectation.

n. Synonyms Attachment, Fondness, etc. (see love), tenderness, partiality, bias. See passion.

To love; have an affection for.

n. In recent psychol., the elementary feeling-process; the pure or qualitatively simple feeliug, in which there is no admixture of sensation. See the extract.

n. In trigonometry, relation to .

n. In law, the making over, pawning, or mortgaging of a thing to assure the payment of a sum of money or the discharge of some other duty or service.

n. a positive feeling of liking

""She will rather die than give any sign of affection," says Benedick of Beatrice; and in that line Shakspere reveals one of the two essential traits of genuine modern coyness -- _dissemblance of feminine affection_."

feeling   

feeling    ailment    trouble   

fond regard    protectiveness    regard    attachment    soft spot    respect   

love    tenderness    good will    attachment    disease    passion    kindness    fondness    attribute    condition   

advection    circumspection    collection    complexion    confection    connection    convection    correction    defection    detection   

sympathy    friendship    devotion    passion    joy    pride    satisfaction    attachment    virtue    hope