Synonyms and Antonyms of affection
1
a feeling of strong or constant regard for and dedication to someone
- an elderly couple showing their affection for each other by little acts of kindness
appetite, fancy, favor, like, liking, partiality, preference, relish, taste
craving, crush, desire, infatuation, longing, lust, yearning
ardor, eagerness, enthusiasm, fervor, zeal
appreciation, esteem, estimation, regard, respect
adoration, adulation, deification, idolatry, idolization, worship
allegiance, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, loyalty, steadfastness
allergy, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, disfavor, dislike, enmity, hostility
abhorrence, disgust, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion
misanthropy
2
an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning
- born with a heart affection that later caused him problems
ail, ailment, bug, complaint, complication, condition, disease, disorder, distemper, distemperature, fever, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness, trouble
contagion, contagious disease
contagium, infection
attack, bout, fit, spell
debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, lameness, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwellness, weakness
malaise, matter, pip
epidemic, pest, pestilence, plague
3
a habitual attraction to some activity or thing
- I'm rooting for the Cubs—just my natural affection for the underdog, I guess
affinity, aptitude, bent, bias, bone, devices, disposition, genius, habitude, impulse, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn
favor, one-sidedness, partisanship, prejudice
endowment, faculty, flair, genius, gift, knack, talent
addiction, appetite, fancy, fondness, like, liking, preference, taste
forte, speciality, specialty
convention, custom, habit, pattern, practice (also practise
