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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This is something far more daffy and useless: The brouhaha over unrequited affections between Seattle Mariners at the World Baseball Classic.
Gabbo didn't hear their interruptions, talked over them, could not differentiate between child and adult voices and responded awkwardly to declarations of affection.
From BBC
Nevertheless the affection Antigone shows for him has a tenderness she rarely allows others to see.
Expressing affection for a specific film in a public forum is grounds to be drawn and quartered in the social media town square.
From Salon
By contrast, my father smothered me with affection.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
