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MUTUAL AFFECTION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sympathy of each person for the other

Synonyms:

mutual affection; mutual understanding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("mutual affection" is a kind of...):

sympathy (a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other)

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 Context examples: 

He was received by Mrs. Dashwood with more than politeness; with a kindness which Sir John's account of him and her own gratitude prompted; and every thing that passed during the visit tended to assure him of the sense, elegance, mutual affection, and domestic comfort of the family to whom accident had now introduced him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)