Definition for Affection:

• Morbid condition or diseased state.

Synonyms for Affection:

• n.

  •
  • loyalty.
  •
  • feelings.
  •affection (noun)
  • sentiment,
  • respect,
  • friendship,
  • regard,
  • tie.
  •disease (noun)
  • collapse,
  • infection,
  • curse,
  • ague,
  • attack,
  • spasm,
  • debility,
  • breakdown,
  • nausea,
  • handicap,
  • malaise,
  • symptom,
  • disability,
  • feverishness,
  • indisposition,
  • Sickliness,
  • malady,
  • fever,
  • pestilence,
  • infliction,
  • decrepitude,
  • unhealthiness,
  • virus,
  • complication,
  • illness,
  • bug,
  • apoplexy.
  •emotion (noun)
  • empathy.
  •feeling (noun)
  • emotion,
  • impression,
  • response,
  • thrill,
  • agitation,
  • sensation,
  • warmness,
  • tingle,
  • experience,
  • Philia,
  • mood,
  • sympathy,
  • ardor.
  •friendship (noun)
  • amicability,
  • sociability,
  • amiability,
  • closeness,
  • neighborliness,
  • companionability,
  • like-mindedness,
  • congeniality,
  • chumminess.
  •greeting (noun)
  • aloha.
  •love (noun)
  • friendliness,
  • romance,
  • amorousness,
  • worship,
  • idolization,
  • adoration,
  • infatuation,
  • communion,
  • kinship,
  • crush,
  • oneness,
  • desire,
  • faithfulness,
  • sentimentality,
  • attachment.
  •strong fondness (noun)
  • propensity,
  • weakness,
  • case,
  • Amore,
  • puppy love,
  • care,
  • shine,
  • good will,
  • soft spot,
  • hankering,
  • solicitude,
  • itch,
  • predilection,
  • yen,
  • concern.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • preference,
  • frill.
  •
  • soul.

Paraphrases for Affection:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    fondness, tenderness.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    feeling.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    attachment.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    sympathy, kindness, compassion, friendship, affinity, passion, disorder, illness, allocation, goodwill, friendliness, empathy, dementia, commitment, dedication.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Loves, devotion, emotion, warmth, sentiment, ailment, loving, romance, caring, liking, esteem.

Antonyms for Affection:

• n.

  • strong fondness
    coldness, negligence, carelessness, dislike, neglect, hate, ill will, hatred, disinterest.
  • Other antonyms:
    rancor, divorce, wholesomeness, alienation, shape, health, objectivity, nonchalance, soundness, estrangement, impartiality, unconcern, loathing, heartiness, fettle, detachment, neutrality, enmity, misanthropy, indifference, wellness, opposition, fitness, robustness, antipathy, animosity, insouciance, repulsion, apathy, hostility, severance, distance, disinterestedness, healthiness, revulsion, repugnance, distaste, wholeness, antagonism, separation, coolness.

Homophones for Affection:

• affixation, apposition, avocation, abstain, abo system, affectation, avestan, abjection.

Hypernym for Affection:

• n.

  • feeling
    attachment, protectiveness, soft spot, fond regard, respect, regard.

Hyponym for Affection:

• n.

  • feeling
    feeling.