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* Spanish: {{t+|es|cariño|m}}, {{t+|es|apego|m}}, {{t+|es|afecto|m}} |
* Spanish: {{t+|es|cariño|m}}, {{t+|es|apego|m}}, {{t+|es|afecto|m}} |
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* Telugu: {{t+|te|మమత}}, {{t+|te|అనురాగం}} |
* Telugu: {{t+|te|మమత}}, {{t+|te|అనురాగం}} |
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* Tocharian B: {{t-simple|txb|larauñe|langname=Tocharian B}} |
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* Turkish: {{t+|tr|duygulanmak}}, {{t|tr|duygusal yakınlık}}, {{t+|tr|eğilim}}, {{t+|tr|meyil}} |
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|duygulanmak}}, {{t|tr|duygusal yakınlık}}, {{t+|tr|eğilim}}, {{t+|tr|meyil}} |
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* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|прихи́льність|f}} |
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|прихи́льність|f}} |
Revision as of 05:20, 22 August 2020
English
Etymology
From Middle English affection, affeccion, affeccioun, from Old French affection, from Latin affectiōnem, from affectiō; see affect.
Pronunciation
Noun
affection (countable and uncountable, plural affections)
- The act of affecting or acting upon.
- 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.
- An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
- (Can we date this quote by Robert Simson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by Robert Simson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
- 2013 August 23, Mark Cocker, “Wings of Desire”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, page 26:
- Our affections for wild animals are distributed very unevenly. Take insects.
- 1905, John C. Ager (translator), Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell Chapter 27
- 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.
- A feeling of love or strong attachment.
- 1908, Gorge Bernard Shaw, Getting Married/Spurious "Natural" Affection
- 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.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Chapter 61
- 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.
- 1908, Gorge Bernard Shaw, Getting Married/Spurious "Natural" Affection
- (medicine, archaic) Disease; morbid symptom; malady.
- (Can we date this quote by Dunglison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- a pulmonary affection
- 1907, The Medical Brief (volume 35, page 840)
- 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 […]
- (Can we date this quote by Dunglison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Usage notes
In the sense of "feeling of love or strong attachment", it is often in the plural; formerly followed by "to", but now more generally by "for" or "toward(s)", for example filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children
Synonyms
- (kind feeling): attachment, fondness, kindness, love, passion, tenderness
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
act of affecting
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state of being affected
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attribute, quality or property
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any emotion
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feeling of love or strong attachment
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morbid symptom
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Verb
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- (now rare) To feel affection for. [from 16th c.]
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, V:
- 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, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, V:
Translations
to feel an affection for
Further reading
- “affection”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “affection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “affection”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin affectiō, affectiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
affection f (plural affections)
Further reading
- “affection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Scots
Noun
affection (plural affections)
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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