Attraction vs. Affection — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Attraction and Affection
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Attraction
The act or capability of attracting.
Affection
Affection or fondness is a "disposition or state of mind or body" that is often associated with a feeling or type of love. It has given rise to a number of branches of philosophy and psychology concerning emotion, disease, influence, and state of being.
Attraction
The quality of attracting; charm.
Affection
A gentle feeling of fondness or liking
He won a place in her affections
She felt affection for the wise old lady
Attraction
A feature or characteristic that attracts.
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Affection
The action or process of affecting or being affected.
Attraction
A person, place, thing, or event that is intended to attract
The main attraction was a Charlie Chaplin film.
Affection
A tender feeling toward another; fondness.
Attraction
A force exerted between bodies that tends to draw or hold them together, such as gravitational force or the electric or magnetic force between bodies of opposite polarity.
Affection
Often affections Feeling or emotion
An unbalanced state of affections.
Attraction
The tendency to attract.
The Moon is held in its orbit by the attraction of the Earth's gravity.
Affection
A disposition to feel, do, or say; a propensity.
Attraction
The feeling of being attracted.
I felt a strange attraction towards the place.
Affection
(Obsolete) Prejudice; partiality.
Attraction
(countable) An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and in many cases, local residents.
The new mall should be a major attraction.
Star Tours is a very cool Disney World attraction.
Affection
The act of affecting or acting upon.
Attraction
(chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.
Affection
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.
Attraction
(linguistics) An error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a sentence to another, e.g. when a verb agrees with a noun other than its subject.
Affection
An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
Attraction
An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.
Affection
An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
Attraction
The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.
Affection
A feeling of love or strong attachment.
I have a lot of affection for my little sister.
The marriage therapist suggested they show each other more affection.
Attraction
The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.
Affection
A disease; a morbid symptom; a malady.
Attraction
That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.
Affection
To feel affection for.
Attraction
The force by which one object attracts another
Affection
The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
Attraction
An entertainment that is offered to the public
Affection
An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies.
And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less,An old and strange affection of the house.
Attraction
The quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts;
Her personality held a strange attraction for him
Affection
Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency.
Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality.
Attraction
A characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts;
Flowers are an attractor for bees
Affection
A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; - often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children.
All his affections are set on his own country.
Attraction
An entertainer who attracts large audiences;
He was the biggest drawing card they had
Affection
Prejudice; bias.
Affection
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection.
Affection
The lively representation of any emotion.
Affection
Affectation.
Affection
Passion; violent emotion.
Most wretched man,That to affections does the bridle lend.
Affection
A positive feeling of liking;
He had trouble expressing the affection he felt
The child won everyone's heart
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