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affectionnoun a feeling of strong or constant regard for and dedication to someonean elderly couple showing their affection for each other by little acts of kindness attachment, devotedness, devotion, fondness, love, passion appetite, fancy, favor, like, liking, partiality, preference, relish, tastecraving, crush, desire, infatuation, longing, lust, yearningardor, eagerness, enthusiasm, fervor, zealappreciation, esteem, estimation, regard, respectadoration, adulation, deification, idolatry, idolization, worshipallegiance, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, loyalty, steadfastness abomination, hate, hatred, loathing, rancor allergy, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, disfavor, dislike, enmity, hostilityabhorrence, disgust, repugnance, repulsion, revulsionmisanthropy an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioningborn with a heart affection that later caused him problems ail, ailment, bug, complaint, complication, condition, disease, disorder, distemper, distemperature, fever, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness, trouble contagion, contagious diseasecontagium, infectionattack, bout, fit, spelldebility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, lameness, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwellness, weaknessmalaise, matter, pipepidemic, pest, pestilence, plague health, wellness fitness, healthiness, heartiness, robustness, soundness, wholeness, wholesomenessfettle, shape a habitual attraction to some activity or thingI'm rooting for the Cubs—just my natural affection for the underdog, I guess affinity, aptitude, bent, bias, bone, devices, disposition, genius, habitude, impulse, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn favor, one-sidedness, partisanship, prejudiceendowment, faculty, flair, gift, knack, talentaddiction, appetite, fancy, fondness, like, liking, preference, tasteforte, speciality, specialtyconvention, custom, habit, pattern, practice(also practise), routine, trick, way, wonteccentricity, idiosyncrasy, kink, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity allergy, averseness, aversion, disfavor, disinclination, dislike, disliking, disrelish, distastedetachment, impartiality, neutrality, objectivityapathy, disinterestedness, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kindreligion, of one kind or another, is an affection common to every society known to have existed attribute, attribution, character, characteristic, criterion, diagnostic, differentia, feature, fingerprint, hallmark, mark, marker, note, particularity, peculiarity, point, property, quality, specific, stamp, touch, trait badge, indication, signemblem, symbol, tokencharm, graceexcellence, merit, virtueeccentricity, idiosyncrasy, oddity, quirkindividuality, singularity, uniqueness feeling, emotion, affection, sentiment, passion mean a subjective response to a person, thing, or situation.feeling denotes any partly mental, partly physical response marked by pleasure, pain, attraction, or repulsion; it may suggest the mere existence of a response but imply nothing about the nature or intensity of it.the feelings that once moved me are gone emotion carries a strong implication of excitement or agitation but, like feeling, encompasses both positive and negative responses.the drama portrays the emotions of adolescence affection applies to feelings that are also inclinations or likings.a memoir of childhood filled with affection for her family sentiment often implies an emotion inspired by an idea.her feminist sentiments are well known passion suggests a very powerful or controlling emotion.revenge became his ruling passion in the 14th century |