Crossword clues for affectionateness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affectionateness \Af*fec"tion*ate*ness\, n. The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being affectionate.
WordNet
n. a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart" [syn: affection, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmheartedness]
a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love [syn: fondness, lovingness, warmth]
Usage examples of "affectionateness".
The overflowing and trusting affectionateness of her nature was a loadstone to draw all hearts.
Clem for something of this kind, yet he had managed things so well that up to the time of his departure she had not been able to remark a single suspicious circumstance, unless, indeed, it were the joyous affectionateness with which he continued to behave, She herself had been passing through a time of excitement and even of suffering.