affection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English affection, affeccion, affeccioun, from Old French affection, from Latin affectiōnem, from affectiō; equivalent to affect + -ion.
Base: affect
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: affections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of affecting or acting upon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A Porism is a proposition in which it is proposed to demonstrate that some one thing, or more things than one, are given, to which, as also to each of innumerable other things, not given indeed, but which have the same relation to those which are given, it is to be shewn that there belongs some common affection described in the proposition.
gloss: An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Our affections for wild animals are distributed very unevenly. Take insects.
It is known that each individual has a variety of affections, one affection when in joy, another when in grief, another when in sympathy and compassion, another when in sincerity and truth, another when in love and charity, another when in zeal or in anger, another when in simulation and deceit, another when in quest of honor and glory, and so on.
gloss: A feeling of love or strong attachment; a feeling of enjoyable and comforting fondness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have a lot of affection for my little sister.
The marriage therapist suggested they show each other more affection.
Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He delighted in going to Pemberley, especially when he was least expected.
What is more, they are protected from even such discomfort as the dislike of his prisoners may cause to a gaoler by the hypnotism of the convention that the natural relation between husband and wife and parent and child is one of intense affection, and that to feel any other sentiment towards a member of one's family is to be a monster.
"Did you ever like me back, Ryan? All those years, I didn't know how to show my affection for you, so I wasn't sure if you weren't getting it or you just didn't care. But I need to know which it was."
Dated a girl that I hate, for the attention / She only made it two days, what a connection / It's like you'd do anything, for my affection / You're going all about it in the worst ways
gloss: A disease; a morbid symptom; a malady.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: a pulmonary affection
The recedent or retrograde form is marked by a sudden subsidence of the inflammatory state of the joints, succeeded immediately by an affection of some internal part, where is thenceforth the seat of the morbid manifestations.
A heavy clay soil is bad for all neuralgics, and the house should be dry, and on a sandy or gravel soil. The desideratum for all neuralgic affections is perpetual summer […]
Related words: affect
affectation
affecter
affective
aficionado
Derived words: affectional
affectionate
affectionated
affectionately
affectionateness
affectioned
affectionless
affectious
alienation of affection
misaffection
nonaffection
public display of affection
unaffection
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