Affection
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.
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Affection Quotations
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey Hepburn
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Aristotle
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
Tupac Shakur
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
Princess Diana
Affection Translations
affection in Afrikaans is aandoening, emosie
affection in Dutch is affect, emotie, aandoening
affection in French is affection
affection in German is Zuneigung
affection in Italian is affetto, affezione
affection in Latin is amor
affection in Norwegian is hengivenhet
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