Sekirov Dictionary

affection

/əˈfɛk.ʃən/

noun 6
verb 1
forms 3

noun6

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a warm, kind feeling of love for someone or something
- I have a lot of affection for my little sister.
- The marriage therapist suggested they show each other more affection.
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.
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An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
- Our affections for wild animals are distributed very unevenly. Take insects. — 2013
The act of affecting or acting upon.
An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
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(no longer used) A disease; a morbid symptom; a malady.
- 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 […] — 1907

verb1

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(no longer used) To feel affection for.
- Why, truth is truth, I do not think my lady Isabella ever much affectioned my young lord, your son: yet he was a sweet youth as one should see. — 1764

forms

affectioned · affectioning · affections

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