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AFFECTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A positive feeling of liking
Example:
the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home
Synonyms:
affection; affectionateness; fondness; heart; philia; tenderness; warmheartedness; warmness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("affection" is a kind of...):
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "affection"):
attachment; fond regard (a feeling of affection for a person or an institution)
protectiveness (a feeling of protective affection)
regard; respect (a feeling of friendship and esteem)
soft spot (a sentimental affection)
Context examples:
And I observed my master to show the same affection to his neighbour’s issue, that he had for his own.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Neptune, the planet of unconditional love, will also be active and supremely helpful at this full moon, so you may feel enveloped by feelings of love and affection.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Though my parents had been married so long, they had really seen very little of each other, and their affection was as warm and as fresh as if they were two newly-wedded lovers.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was a magnanimity in her quiet way of doing so, and of dismissing it, which would have exalted her in my respect and affection, if anything could.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"That very finger," he managed to articulate, as though it somehow clinched the proof of ownership and the bond of affection.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
There were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the girl’s affections from turning towards anyone else.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He receives these wares not only from treacherous valets or maids, but frequently from genteel ruffians, who have gained the confidence and affection of trusting women.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One of his neighbours, who did not seem to bear him any affection, said that he had gone away two days before, no one knew whither.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
