affection
Usage
What are other ways to say affection?
Affection is a fondness for others that is enduring and tender, but calm. Devotion is an intense love and steadfast, enduring loyalty to a person; it may also imply consecration to a cause. Love may apply to various kinds of regard: the charity of the Creator, reverent adoration toward God or toward a person, the relation of parent and child, the regard of friends for each other, or romantic feelings for another person, etc.
Example Sentences
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But running through it all is a strain of true affection for the people and culture of the nation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
City College and later at UCLA, he developed an affection for writing, philosophy and history.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026
If you love sitcoms, know that Burrows, who died Friday, June 19, at the age of 85, planted many seeds of that affection.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2026
Growing up in rural Ethiopia, 12-year-old Markos Abaye developed a deep affection for animals.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026
He would bring her the gifts real maidens love, little birds and gay flowers and the shining tears of amber Phaëthon’s sisters weep, and then dream that she thanked him with eager affection.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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