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affection 音标拼音: [əf'ɛkʃən] n. 感情,好感,爱情,慈爱;影响 感情,好感,爱情,慈爱;影响 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}] affection \ af* fec" tion\ ([ a^] f* f[ e^] k" sh[ u^] n), n. [ F. affection, L. affectio, fr. afficere. See { Affect}.] 1. The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. -- Cogan. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] All his affections are set on his own country. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Prejudice; bias. [ Obs.] -- Bp. Aylmer. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Med.) Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. -- Dunglison. AS [ 1913 Webster] 7. The lively representation of any emotion. -- Wotton. [ 1913 Webster] 8. Affectation. [ Obs.] " Spruce affection." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 9. Passion; violent emotion. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Attachment; passion; tenderness; fondness; kindness; love; liking; good will. See { Attachment}; { Disease}. [ 1913 Webster] 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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