Affection is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AFFECTION in dictionary:

VERB:
• to love
NOUN:
• a fond feeling
• a gentle feeling of fondness or liking
• the action or process of affecting or being affected.
• a condition or disease
• a mental state; an emotion.
• fondness or love
• The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
• An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies.
• 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.
• 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.
• Prejudice; bias.
• Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection.
• The lively representation of any emotion.
• Affectation.
• Passion; violent emotion.
• a positive feeling of liking
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a moderate feeling or emotion

Words related to AFFECTION

affectional19 affectionally24 affectioned20 affectioning21 affectionless21 affections18 storge7

Words that contain AFFECTION

affections18 affectional19 affectioned20 affectionate20 affectioning21 disaffection21 affectionally24 affectionless21 disaffections22 affectionately25 unaffectionate22 disaffectionate24 unaffectionatel23 unaffectionately27

How to use AFFECTION in a sentence

• I loved to sit at one corner of the great fireplace and see her eyes kindle with pride and affection as she gazed at him, nor did her other children love him less than she.
• She had shown her affection when it was needful, she restrained her sorrow when it was superflous.
• Practically, we know that grief for the loss of a wife may be continued very long, in proportion as affection has been sincere.
• The young king had turned with passionate affection to his brilliant chancellor.
• Having thus found his place in literature, he began also to be rich in friends, and his life was devoted every moment to thought and affection.
• If Philip Joy, whom with no divided affection she loved in her own way, had known all, he would scarcely have been so contented at the dwelling of Sir Christopher.
• Their affection and pleasure in meeting was just enough to make a very creditable appearance in Mr.
• Thompson loved the forest as a man loves pleasant, familiar things, and next to the woods his affection turned to the sea.
• He offered me love, affection, and care, and promised that I should never want for anything.
• She had many friends of her own sex, who cherished an idolatrous affection for her.
• He knew that what she felt towards him was not the love between a woman and her mate, but the affection of dependence, of habit.
• To be sure, there are some mothers that have drank so much liquor that they have drunk up all their affection.
• Walk with perfect charity, concord, affection, and agreement.
• Upon his only child the colonel lavished all of his affection.
• Those only who feel a deep interest in, and affection for, this world, will work resolutely for its amelioration.
• You were endowed with a soul full of affection, fit for passionate love, and you were kept away from women by force.
• O my very dear friend, how much too kind you are to me, who have nothing to give you in return but affection and gratitude! Mr.
• The girl who may call forth his warmest affection may be the last person in the world you would have chosen, yet you are not the one to be concerned.
• All the old intimacy had returned now, and more than the old familiar affection.
• Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.
• Bengerd bore Valdemar three sons upon whom he lavished all the affection of his lonely old age.
• But in reality, the affection arising from the idea of vast power is extremely remote from that neutral character.
• It had seemed to her that Jose had more than once permitted himself to express his affection for her.
• Her affection she deemed was not a fancy, but a feeling now.
• Although capable of great and disinterested affection, he was unable to make his affection a source of happiness to himself or to others.

Similar words containing AFFEC without suffix tion

affect14 affects15 affected17 affecter16 affecters17 affecting18 affective20 disaffect18 affectable20 affectedly22 affections18 affectless18 disaffects19 unaffected19 affectation19 affectingly23 affectional19 affectioned20 affectively25 affectivity25 disaffected21 unaffecting20 affectations20 affectedness21 affectionate20 affectioning21 disaffecting22 disaffection21 unaffectedly24 affectability26 affectionally24 affectionless21 affectiveness24 affectivities24 disaffectedly26 disaffections22 affectednesses23 affectionately25 affectlessness22 unaffectedness23 unaffectionate22 affectabilities25 affectivenesses26 disaffectedness25 disaffectionate24 schizoaffective40 affectlessnesse23 unaffectednesse24 unaffectionatel23 unaffectionately27 unaffectednesses25 affectlessnesses24

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