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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The object of her affections just needs a nudge in the right direction, and this playful, soulful melody should easily set the romance on track.
From BBC
Villaraigosa and others said Reiner had a granular knowledge of the policies he supported, garnering the respect — if not always the affection — of those with whom he disagreed.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
