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.

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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. Abraham Lincoln:

   We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

2. Freddy Ford:

   She kind of likes my sense of humor. Anybody who likes my sense of humor, I immediately like, when I saw her, it was a genuine expression of affection.

3. Julianne Hough:

   With everything going on, obviously my heart is with the frontline workers and the healthcare providers, and giving them my absolute love and affection, and feeling the weight of what's happening. But at the same time, I'm feeling very blessed that I've had this time to stop and pause, being on tour for three months and traveling and starting a business, it's a lot. So to be able to be home, and stop and pause, and look inward, and connect back to Julianne Hough has been glorious.

4. Michel de Montaigne:

   In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

5. Nan Fairbrother:

   The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.