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af⋅fec⋅tion

1  [uh-fek-shuhn]
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–noun
1. fond attachment, devotion, or love: the affection of a parent for an only child.
2. Often, affections.
a. emotion; feeling; sentiment: over and above our reason and affections.
b. the emotional realm of love: a place in his affections.
3. Pathology. a disease, or the condition of being diseased; abnormal state of body or mind: a gouty affection.
4. the act of affecting; act of influencing or acting upon.
5. the state of being affected.
6. Philosophy. a contingent, alterable, and accidental state or quality of being.
7. the affective aspect of a mental process.
8. bent or disposition of mind.
9. Obsolete. bias; prejudice.
Origin:
1200–50; ME < OF < L affectiōn- (s. of affectiō) disposition or state of mind or body; see affect 1 , -ion

Related forms:
af⋅fec⋅tion⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. liking, friendliness, amity, fondness, friendship. See love.

Antonyms:
1. dislike.
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Word Origin & History

affection 
c.1230, "an emotion of the mind, passion, lust as opposed to reason," from O.Fr. affection, from L. affectionem (nom affectio) "inclination, influence, permanent state of feeling," from affec-, stem of afficere "to do something to, act on" (see affect (n.)). Sense developed from "disposition" to "good disposition toward" (1382). Affectionate in the sense of "loving" is from 1586.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2affection
Function: noun
1 : the action of affecting : the state of being affected
2 a : a bodily condition b : DISEASE, MALADY affection>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

affection af·fec·tion (ə-fěk'shən)
n.

  1. A tender feeling toward another; fondness.

  2. A bodily condition; disease.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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