affection
Usage
What are other ways to say affection?
Affection is a fondness for others that is enduring and tender, but calm. Devotion is an intense love and steadfast, enduring loyalty to a person; it may also imply consecration to a cause. Love may apply to various kinds of regard: the charity of the Creator, reverent adoration toward God or toward a person, the relation of parent and child, the regard of friends for each other, or romantic feelings for another person, etc.
Example Sentences
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As Elmire, Ms. Gray has a gentle radiance and tolerant air of affection for her husband’s folly.
Cameron’s affection for the place is still a convincing reason to hang out in outer space until the popcorn visionary finally returns to our planet.
From Los Angeles Times
By the time I was a child there in the 1980s, the place was bathed in trans-Atlantic mythology and affection for the United States, the great liberator.
This is because of the unwonted affection that the former president displays to his one-time arch-rival.
From BBC
Finally got the elusive century in Australia and the scenes on the first evening were of genuine affection to an England legend.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
