affection: Meaning and Definition of

af•fec•tion

1. fond attachment, devotion, or love: the affection of a parent for an only child.
2. Often, over and above our reason and affections.
1. emotion; feeling; sentiment:over and above our reason and affections.
2. the emotional realm of love:a place in his affections.
3. a disease, or the condition of being diseased; abnormal state of body or mind: a gouty affection.
4. the act of affecting; act of influencing or acting upon.
5. the state of being affected.
6. a contingent, alterable, and accidental state or quality of being.
7. the affective aspect of a mental process.
8. bent or disposition of mind.
9. bias; prejudice.

af•fec•tion

1. affectation (defs. 1–3).