Affection



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 亲情, 柔情
• ［英］ n. 亲情, 柔情 ( fond or tender feeling)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French affection, from Latin affection-, affectio, from afficere
• Date: 13th century
• 1. a moderate feeling or emotion
• 2. tender attachment ; fondness she had a deep affection for her parents
• 3.
  • a.
    • (1) a bodily condition
    • (2) disease, malady
  • b. attribute shape and weight are affections of bodies
• 4. obsolete partiality, prejudice
• 5. the feeling aspect (as in pleasure) of consciousness
• 6.
  • a. propensity, disposition
  • b. archaic affectation 1
• 7. the action of affecting ; the state of being affected
• Synonyms: see feeling
• • affectionless adjective

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