affectional

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Their picture can be read as a tribute to partnership, artistic, or affectional, or both.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

The proposal would define “sex” as including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, sex assigned at birth, gender identity or expression, affectional or sexual orientation and differences in sex development.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2022

“It is a pathologic and psychiatric diagnosis where an individual person, a child in this case, would be unable to have affectional connection to an adult, to a parent, incapable of exchange of love.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2014

Like a shell game, this musical teases the eye without stimulating a smidgen of affectional concern.

From Time Magazine Archive

If mothers thus nurse their babies they must come close to them in affectional contact, and it is through affectional contact more than in any other way that babies seem to thrive.

From The Family and it's Members by Spencer, Anna Garlin