<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a strong feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, such as for a parent, child, friend, or pet: The affection of a parent for an only child.</li><li>Synonyms: friendliness, friendship, fondness, amity, liking</li><li>Antonyms: dislike</li><li>often affections.</li><li>emotion; feeling; sentiment: over and above our reason and affections.</li><li>the emotional realm of love: a place in his affections.</li><li>Pathology. a disease, or the condition of being diseased; abnormal state of body or mind: a gouty affection.</li><li>the act of affecting; act of influencing or acting upon.</li><li>the state of being affected.</li><li>Philosophy. a contingent, alterable, and accidental state or quality of being; the affective aspect of a mental process.</li><li>bent or disposition of mind.</li><li>Obsolete. bias; prejudice.</li></ul>