affection
202 synonyms found
- abnormality
- access
- acute disease
- admiration
- adore
- affect
- affectionateness
- affections
- affective faculty
- affectivity
- affliction
- agape
- ailment
- allergic disease
- allergy
- amativeness
- Amor
- amorousness
- ardency
- ardor
- atrophy
- attachment
- attention
- attribute
- bacterial disease
- bent
- bias
- birth defect
- blight
- bodily love
- brotherly love
- cardiovascular disease
- caritas
- character
- characteristic
- Christian love
- chronic disease
- circulatory disease
- complaint
- complication
- concern
- condition
- congenital defect
- conjugal love
- crush
- defect
- deficiency disease
- deformity
- degenerative disease
- demonstrativeness
- derangement
- desire
- devotion
- disability
- disease
- disorder
- distemper
- disturbance
- doting
- ecstasy
- emotion
- emotional charge
- emotional life
- emotional shade
- emotions
- enchantment
- endemic
- endemic disease
- endocrine disease
- enjoying
- epidemic disease
- Eros
- experience
- faculty
- faithful love
- fancy
- feature
- feeling tone
- feelings
- fervor
- finer feelings
- flame
- fondness
- foreboding
- free love
- free-lovism
- functional disease
- fungus disease
- gastrointestinal disease
- genetic disease
- goatishness
- gust
- gusto
- gut reaction
- handicap
- heart
- heartthrob
- hereditary disease
- hero worship
- high regard
- horniness
- iatrogenic disease
- idolatry
- idolism
- idolization
- ill
- illness
- impression
- indisposition
- infatuation
- infectious disease
- infirmity
- lasciviousness
- leaning
- libido
- like
- likes
- liking
- love
- lovelornness
- lovemaking
- lovesickness
- malady
- malaise
- mark
- married love
- morbidity
- morbus
- muscular disease
- neurological disease
- nutritional disease
- occupational disease
- organic disease
- pandemic disease
- paroxysm
- passions
- pathological condition
- pathology
- penchant
- physical love
- plant disease
- Platonic love
- popular regard
- popularity
- predilection
- presentiment
- profound sense
- propensity
- property
- protozoan disease
- psychosomatic disease
- rapture
- reaction
- regard
- relish
- respiratory disease
- response
- rockiness
- romanticism
- savor
- secondary disease
- seediness
- sensation
- sense
- sensibilities
- sentiment
- sentimentality
- sentiments
- sex
- sexiness
- sexual love
- shine
- sickishness
- sickness
- signs
- spell
- spiritual love
- susceptibilities
- susceptibility
- sympathies
- symptomatology
- symptomology
- symptoms
- taste
- tender feeling
- tender passion
- tender susceptibilities
- tenderness
- the pip
- trait
- truelove
- turn
- undercurrent
- urogenital disease
- uxoriousness
- virtue
- virus disease
- warmth
- wasting disease
- weakness
- worm disease
- yearning
Definition
(n) :
the act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected; an attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc., are affections of bodies
"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"