Definitions from Wiktionary (affection)
▸ noun: The act of affecting or acting upon.
▸ noun: The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.
▸ noun: An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
▸ noun: An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
▸ noun: A feeling of love or strong attachment.
▸ noun: (medicine, archaic) A disease; a morbid symptom; a malady.
▸ verb: (now rare) To feel affection for.
▸ Also see affection
alienated affections,
alienation of affections,
Doctrine of the affections,
spurning of affections,
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▸ noun: The act of affecting or acting upon.
▸ noun: The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.
▸ noun: An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
▸ noun: An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
▸ noun: A feeling of love or strong attachment.
▸ noun: (medicine, archaic) A disease; a morbid symptom; a malady.
▸ verb: (now rare) To feel affection for.
▸ Also see affection
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other,
natural,
human,
inflammatory,
domestic,
nervous,
chronic,
social,
various,
certain,
religious
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