How to pronounce “affection”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The act of affecting or acting upon.
• The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.
• An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
• An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
• A feeling of love or strong attachment.
• (medicine, archaic) A disease; a morbid symptom; a malady.
• [Verb]
• (now rare) To feel affection for. [from 16th c.]

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