affection 音標拼音: [əf'ɛkʃən]
n . 感情,好感,愛情,慈愛;影響
感情,好感,愛情,慈愛;影響
affection n 1 :
a positive feeling of liking ; "
he had trouble expressing the affection he felt "; "
the child won everyone '
s heart ";
"
the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home "
[
synonym : {
affection }, {
affectionateness }, {
fondness },
{
tenderness }, {
heart }, {
warmness }, {
warmheartedness },
{
philia }]
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n . [
F .
affection ,
L .
affectio ,
fr .
afficere .
See {
Affect }.]
1 .
The act of affecting or acting upon ;
the state of being affected .
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2 . (
Philosophy )
An attribute ,
especially a contingent or alterable quality or property ;
a condition ;
a bodily state ;
as ,
figure ,
weight ,
etc .,
are affections of bodies .
"
The affections of quantity ." --
Boyle .
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And ,
truly ,
waking dreams were ,
more or less ,
An old and strange affection of the house .
--
Tennyson .
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3 .
Bent of mind ;
a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind ;
any emotion ;
as ,
the benevolent affections ,
esteem ,
gratitude ,
etc .;
the malevolent affections ,
hatred ,
envy ,
etc .;
inclination ;
disposition ;
propensity ;
tendency .
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Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind ,
when impressed by any object or quality . --
Cogan .
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4 .
A settled good will ;
kind feeling ;
love ;
zealous or tender attachment ; --
often in the pl .
Formerly followed by to ,
but now more generally by for or towards ;
as ,
filial ,
social ,
or conjugal affections ;
to have an affection for or towards children .
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All his affections are set on his own country .
--
Macaulay .
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5 .
Prejudice ;
bias . [
Obs .] --
Bp .
Aylmer .
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6 . (
Med .)
Disease ;
morbid symptom ;
malady ;
as ,
a pulmonary affection . --
Dunglison .
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7 .
The lively representation of any emotion . --
Wotton .
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8 .
Affectation . [
Obs .] "
Spruce affection ." --
Shak .
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9 .
Passion ;
violent emotion . [
Obs .]
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Most wretched man ,
That to affections does the bridle lend . --
Spenser .
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Syn :
Attachment ;
passion ;
tenderness ;
fondness ;
kindness ;
love ;
liking ;
good will .
See {
Attachment }; {
Disease }.
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212 Moby Thesaurus words for "
affection ":
Amor ,
Christian love ,
Eros ,
Platonic love ,
abnormality ,
access ,
acute disease ,
admiration ,
adoration ,
adore ,
affect ,
affectionateness ,
affections ,
affective faculty ,
affectivity ,
affliction ,
agape ,
ailment ,
allergic disease ,
allergy ,
amativeness ,
amorousness ,
ardency ,
ardor ,
atrophy ,
attachment ,
attack ,
attention ,
attribute ,
bacterial disease ,
bent ,
bias ,
birth defect ,
blight ,
bodily love ,
brotherly love ,
cardiovascular disease ,
caritas ,
character ,
characteristic ,
charity ,
chronic disease ,
circulatory disease ,
complaint ,
complication ,
concern ,
condition ,
congenital defect ,
conjugal love ,
crush ,
defect ,
deficiency disease ,
deformity ,
degenerative disease ,
demonstrativeness ,
derangement ,
desire ,
devotion ,
disability ,
disease ,
disorder ,
distemper ,
disturbance ,
doting ,
ecstasy ,
emotion ,
emotional charge ,
emotional life ,
emotional shade ,
emotions ,
enchantment ,
endemic ,
endemic disease ,
endocrine disease ,
enjoying ,
epidemic disease ,
experience ,
faculty ,
faithful love ,
fancy ,
feature ,
feeling ,
feeling tone ,
feelings ,
fervor ,
finer feelings ,
flame ,
fondness ,
foreboding ,
free love ,
free -
lovism ,
functional disease ,
fungus disease ,
gastrointestinal disease ,
genetic disease ,
goatishness ,
goodwill ,
gust ,
gusto ,
gut reaction ,
handicap ,
heart ,
heartthrob ,
hereditary disease ,
hero worship ,
high regard ,
horniness ,
iatrogenic disease ,
idolatry ,
idolism ,
idolization ,
ill ,
illness ,
impression ,
indisposition ,
infatuation ,
infectious disease ,
infirmity ,
interest ,
lasciviousness ,
leaning ,
libido ,
like ,
likes ,
liking ,
love ,
lovelornness ,
lovemaking ,
lovesickness ,
malady ,
malaise ,
mark ,
married love ,
morbidity ,
morbus ,
muscular disease ,
neurological disease ,
nutritional disease ,
occupational disease ,
organic disease ,
pandemic disease ,
paroxysm ,
passion ,
passions ,
pathological condition ,
pathology ,
penchant ,
physical love ,
plant disease ,
popular regard ,
popularity ,
predilection ,
presentiment ,
profound sense ,
propensity ,
property ,
protozoan disease ,
psychosomatic disease ,
rapture ,
reaction ,
regard ,
relish ,
respiratory disease ,
response ,
rockiness ,
romanticism ,
savor ,
secondary disease ,
seediness ,
sensation ,
sense ,
sensibilities ,
sentiment ,
sentimentality ,
sentiments ,
sex ,
sexiness ,
sexual love ,
shine ,
sickishness ,
sickness ,
signs ,
spell ,
spiritual love ,
susceptibilities ,
susceptibility ,
sympathies ,
sympathy ,
symptomatology ,
symptomology ,
symptoms ,
syndrome ,
taste ,
tender feeling ,
tender passion ,
tender susceptibilities ,
tenderness ,
the pip ,
trait ,
truelove ,
turn ,
undercurrent ,
urogenital disease ,
uxoriousness ,
virtue ,
virus disease ,
warmth ,
wasting disease ,
weakness ,
worm disease ,
worship ,
yearning
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