affection

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a positive feeling of liking

   I had trouble expressing the affection I felt.

2. 2
   noun

   An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.

   A Porism is a proposition in which it is proposed to demonstrate that some one thing, or more things than one, are given, to which, as also to each of innumerable other things, not given indeed, but which have the same relation to those which are given, it is to be shewn that there belongs some common affection described in the proposition.

3. 3
   noun

   An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.

   Our affections for wild animals are distributed very unevenly. Take insects.

4. 4
   noun

   A feeling of love or strong attachment.

   I have a lot of affection for my little sister.

5. 5
   noun

   A disease; a morbid symptom; a malady.

   a pulmonary affection

6. 6
   verb

   To feel affection for.

   Why, truth is truth, I do not think my lady Isabella ever much affectioned my young lord, your son: yet he was a sweet youth as one should see.

7. 7
   noun

   The act of affecting or acting upon.

8. 8
   noun

   The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.

Etymology

From Middle English affection, affeccion, affeccioun, from Old French affection, from Latin affectiōnem, from affectiō; equivalent to affect + -ion.