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heart
noun. person's emotions
  • affection
  • benevolence
  • character
  • compassion
  • concern
  • disposition
  • feeling
  • gusto
  • humanity
  • inclination
  • love
  • nature
  • palate
  • pity
  • relish
  • response
  • sensitivity
  • sentiment
  • soul
  • sympathy
  • temperament
  • tenderness
  • understanding
  • zest

hug
noun. embrace
  • affection
  • bear hug
  • bunny hug
  • caress
  • clasp
  • clinch
  • lock
  • squeeze
  • tight grip

ill
noun. misfortune
  • abuse
  • affection
  • affliction
  • ailment
  • badness
  • complaint
  • condition
  • cruelty
  • damage
  • depravity
  • destruction
  • disease
  • disorder
  • evil
  • harm
  • hurt
  • illness
  • indisposition
  • infirmity
  • injury
  • insult
  • malady
  • malaise
  • malice
  • mischief
  • misery
  • pain
  • sickness
  • suffering
  • syndrome
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • unpleasantness
  • wickedness
  • woe
  • wrong

inclination
noun. tendency, bent
  • affection
  • appetite
  • aptitude
  • aptness
  • attachment
  • attraction
  • bias
  • capability
  • capacity
  • cup of tea
  • desire
  • disposition
  • drift
  • druthers
  • fancy
  • fondness
  • groove
  • idiosyncrasy
  • impulse
  • leaning
  • liking
  • mind
  • movement
  • partiality
  • penchant
  • persuasion
  • pleasure
  • predilection
  • predisposition
  • preference
  • prejudice
  • proclivity
  • proneness
  • propensity
  • slant
  • soft spot
  • stomach
  • susceptibility
  • taste
  • temperament
  • thing
  • trend
  • turn
  • type
  • urge
  • velleity
  • weakness
  • whim
  • will
  • wish

interest
noun. attraction, curiosity
  • absorption
  • activity
  • affection
  • attentiveness
  • care
  • case
  • concern
  • concernment
  • consequence
  • diversion
  • engrossment
  • enthusiasm
  • excitement
  • game
  • hobby
  • importance
  • interestedness
  • into
  • leisure activity
  • matter
  • moment
  • note
  • notice
  • passion
  • pastime
  • preoccupation
  • pursuit
  • racket
  • recreation
  • regard
  • relaxation
  • relevance
  • significance
  • sport
  • suspicion
  • sympathy
  • thing

intimacy
noun. closeness between people
  • acquaintance
  • affection
  • affinity
  • close relationship
  • communion
  • confidence
  • confidentiality
  • experience
  • familiarity
  • friendship
  • inwardness
  • understanding

kindness
noun. compassion, generosity
  • affection
  • altruism
  • amiability
  • beneficence
  • benevolence
  • charity
  • clemency
  • consideration
  • cordiality
  • courtesy
  • decency
  • delicacy
  • fellow feeling
  • forbearance
  • gentleness
  • good intention
  • good will
  • goodness
  • grace
  • graciousness
  • heart
  • helpfulness
  • hospitality
  • humanity
  • indulgence
  • kindliness
  • magnanimity
  • mildness
  • patience
  • philanthropy
  • serviceability
  • solicitousness
  • solicitude
  • sweetness
  • sympathy
  • tact
  • tenderness
  • thoughtfulness
  • tolerance
  • understanding
  • unselfishness

liking
noun. fondness, taste
  • affection
  • affinity
  • appetite
  • appreciation
  • attachment
  • attraction
  • bent
  • bias
  • desire
  • devotion
  • fancy
  • favoritism
  • inclination
  • love
  • mind
  • palate
  • partiality
  • passion
  • penchant
  • pleasure
  • predilection
  • preference
  • proneness
  • propensity
  • relish
  • soft spot
  • stomach
  • sympathy
  • tendency
  • tooth
  • velleity
  • weakness
  • will

love
noun. adoration; very strong liking
  • adulation
  • affection
  • allegiance
  • amity
  • amorousness
  • amour
  • appreciation
  • ardency
  • ardor
  • attachment
  • case
  • cherishing
  • crush
  • delight
  • devotedness
  • devotion
  • emotion
  • enchantment
  • enjoyment
  • fervor
  • fidelity
  • flame
  • fondness
  • friendship
  • hankering
  • idolatry
  • inclination
  • infatuation
  • involvement
  • like
  • lust
  • mad for
  • partiality
  • passion
  • piety
  • rapture
  • regard
  • relish
  • respect
  • sentiment
  • soft spot
  • taste
  • tenderness
  • weakness
  • worship
  • yearning
  • zeal
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Word Origin & History

affection early 13c., "an emotion of the mind, passion, lust as opposed to reason," from O.Fr. affection, from L. affectionem (nom. affectio) "inclination, influence, permanent state of feeling," from affec-, pp. stem of afficere "to do something to, act on" (see affect (n.)). Sense developed from "disposition" to "good disposition toward" (late 14c.).

Example Sentences for affection

I know, better than you possibly can, what reasons I have to trust the strength of his affection.

"He is a good son to me," said Mrs. Rushton, with a glance of affection.

Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.

She had no affection for this selfish invalid, this weak, peevish bully.

Her affection concentrated on two objects, the house and Maggie, Maggie and the house.

He drew off: and then ran into the highest professions of reverence and affection for you.

It is not easy for an Anglo-Saxon to confess the realities of affection in vital intimacies.

But a sudden unaccustomed gust of affection swirled in the breast of the lad.

In almost every play he speaks of flowers with affection and delight.

His affection for Cassius is not a virtue to one in especial.

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