Crossword clues for affection
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affection \Af*fec"tion\, n. [F. affection, L. affectio, fr. afficere. See Affect.]
The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
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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.
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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.
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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. Prejudice; bias. [Obs.]
--Bp. Aylmer.(Med.) Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection.
--Dunglison.The lively representation of any emotion.
--Wotton.Affectation. [Obs.] ``Spruce affection.''
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Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.]
Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend.
--Spenser.Syn: Attachment; passion; tenderness; fondness; kindness; love; good will. See Attachment; Disease.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., "an emotion of the mind, passion, lust as opposed to reason," from Old French afection (12c.) "emotion, inclination, disposition; love, attraction, enthusiasm," from Latin affectionem (nominative affectio) "a relation, disposition; a temporary state; a frame, constitution," noun of state from past participle stem of afficere "to do something to, act on" (see affect (n.)). Sense developed from "disposition" to "good disposition toward" (late 14c.). Related: Affections.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of affect or acting upon. 2 The state of being affected. 3 An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc., are affections of bodies. 4 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. vb. to feel an #Noun, emotion or love for.
WordNet
n. a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart" [syn: affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmheartedness]
Wikipedia
Affection, attraction, infatuation, or fondness is a " disposition or rare state of mind or body" that is often associated with a feeling or type of love. It has given rise to a number of branches of philosophy and psychology concerning emotion, disease, influence, and state of being. "Affection" is popularly used to denote a feeling or type of love, amounting to more than goodwill or friendship. Writers on ethics generally use the word to refer to distinct states of feeling, both lasting and spasmodic. Some contrast it with passion as being free from the distinctively sensual element.
A simple expression of affection can have a wide variety of emotional effects that range from joy to discomfort to outright fear. In fact, affection also has distinct physical effects both for the receiver and the giver.
Affection (, translit. Obich) is a 1972 Bulgarian drama film directed by Ludmil Staikov. It was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Golden Prize.
Affection (stylized as affection) is the debut studio album by Japanese R&B-turned- pop singer Kumi Koda. It was released on March 27, 2002. It has been her only album to not chart in the Top 10, debuting at #12 on Oricon and staying on the charts for six weeks. During its run, it had only sold 91,360 copies, making it her lowest-selling album. The limited editions of the album contained remixes for Take Back and Trust Your Love that had only been released on her North American release of the singles.
This album carries her most famous ballad, walk, which, starting from her first tour, Secret ~First Class Limited Live~ (2005), she has performed at every concert. It also contains her first collaboration attempt, Till Morning Comes, which features Japanese rapper VERBAL, who is part of the hip-hop duo m-flo.
In Celtic linguistics, affection (also known as vowel affection, infection or vowel mutation) is the change in the quality of a vowel under the influence of the vowel of the following, final syllable. Subsequently, the vowel triggering the change was normally lost. Some grammatical suffixes cause i-affection; Welsh: gair word + -iadur device suffix yields geiriadur dictionary, the -ai- in gair becomes -ei-.
The two main types of affection are a-affection and i-affection. i-affection is an example of i-mutation, and may be compared to Germanic umlaut. More rarely, the term "affection" (like "umlaut") may be heard applied to other languages, and is then a synonym for i-mutation generally.
Affection is the debut solo album by British R&B recording artist Lisa Stansfield, released by Arista Records on 20 November 1989. Stansfield co-wrote all songs with Ian Devaney and Andy Morris. Devaney and Morris also produced the album, except for " This Is the Right Time" which was produced by Coldcut. Affection received critical acclaim from music critics and was commercially successful. It reached top ten on the charts in many countries and has sold over five million copies worldwide. The album spawned a hit song, " All Around the World", and four other successful singles: "This Is the Right Time", " Live Together", " What Did I Do to You?" and " You Can't Deny It". Affection was re-released as a deluxe 2CD + DVD set in the United Kingdom on 10 November 2014 and in Europe on 21 November 2014.
Affection is often associated with a feeling or type of love.
Affection may also refer to:
- Affection (linguistics), in Celtic linguistics, the fronting of vowels in the main syllable of a word
- Affection (Lisa Stansfield album), 1989
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Affection (Jody Watley album), 1995
- "Affection" (song), a 1995 song from the Jody Watley album
- Affection (Kumi Koda album), 2002
- A song from The All-American Rejects' album Kids in the Street, 2012
- Affection (film), a 1972 Bulgarian film
- Affectionate (EP), an EP by Venetian Snares
- Doctrine of the affections, esthetic theory of the Baroque era
Usage examples of "affection".
He should boast of his accomplishment and use it as a warning to any others who might attempt to abscond with the affections of his mate.
Tronchin would provide could not possibly be as comfortable and as safe as mine, and I entreated her to take it, assuring her that by accepting it she would give me a last proof of her affection.
I recollect his warmth of heart and high sense, and your beauty, gentleness, charms of conversation, and purely disinterested love for one whose great worldly advantages might so easily bias or adulterate affection, I own that I have no dread for your future fate, no feeling that can at all darken the brightness of anticipation.
POSITIVE INJURY instead of benefit often results from the employment of some of the nostrums advertised for the cure of spermatorrhea, impotency and kindred affections.
Because representations attack it at what we call the affective phase and cause a resulting experience, a disturbance, to which disturbance is joined the image of threatened evil: this amounts to an affection and Reason seeks to extinguish it, to ban it as destructive to the well-being of the Soul which by the mere absence of such a condition is immune, the one possible cause of affection not being present.
Piles are not only in and of themselves very painful and annoying, but often greatly aggravate and even cause other grave and painful affections, and should, therefore, not be neglected.
Though she cannot conquer her affection for the young man, she believes that he will, in the course of time, return to Agot, as soon as she is out of his way.
Cassius, because in the agrarian donation he sought popularity among the allies, and was therefore lowered in the estimation of his countrymen, in order that by another donation he might conciliate their affections, ordered that the money received for the Sicilian corn should be refunded to the people.
While every healthy arachnoid longed to take part in the adventurous new life, he or she longed also, through sheer affection and symbiotic entanglement, to assist his or her ichthyoid mate to have an equal share in that life.
Mary, who knew his face so well, saw with horror that he did not smile with pleasure or affection for his son, but with quiet, gentle irony because he thought she was trying what she believed to be the last means of arousing him.
Acute articular rheumatism implies an affection of the articulations or joints.
This affection, also popularly known as Nervous Prostration, or Nervous Weakness, and, to the medical profession, as Neurasthenia, or Nervous Asthenia, is becoming alarmingly prevalent.
British fans put on displays of public affection that the staid, puritanical American attendees beheld in bemused astonishment.
In each particular human being we must admit the existence of the authentic Intellective Act and of the authentically knowable object--though not as wholly merged into our being, since we are not these in the absolute and not exclusively these--and hence our longing for absolute things: it is the expression of our intellective activities: if we sometimes care for the partial, that affection is not direct but accidental, like our knowledge that a given triangular figure is made up of two right angles because the absolute triangle is so.
Then do you not wonder at my present behaviour, that even in my nakedness I have made no effort whatsoever to inspire your baser affections?