Word Meanings - AFFECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections

Additional info about word: AFFECTION

Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. Spenser. Syn. -- Attachment; passion; tenderness; fondness; kindness; love; good will. See Attachment; Disease. (more info) 1. The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected. 2. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson. 3. Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc. ; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. Cogan. 4. A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children. All his affections are set on his own country. Macaulay. 5. Prejudice; bias. Bp. Aylmer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AFFECTION)

• Desire
• Longing
• affection
• propension
• craving
• concupiscence
• appetency
• Influence
• Effect
• control
• causation
• impulse
• power
• credit
• character
• sway
• weight
• ascendancy
• prestige
• authority
• Love
• Affection
• attachment
• passion
• devotion
• benevolence
• charity
• kindness
• Nature
• Essence
• creation
• constitution
• structure
• disposition
• truth
• regularity
• kind
• sort
• species
• naturalness
• Sensation
• apprehension
• sentiment
• feeling
• perception
• surprise
• impression

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AFFECTION)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to AFFECTION)

• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• LONGIPALP
  One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
• CREATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to creation.
• LONGSPUN
  Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• CREATION
  1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had
• LONGSOME
  Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
• CREDIT FONCIER
  A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out
• LONGULITE
  A kind of crystallite having a acicular form.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• CREATIONISM
  The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• APPREHENSION
  1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• TRUTHY
  Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• DISCREDITABLE
  Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.