Synonyms of the word

affection

• n. The act of affecting or acting upon.
• n. The state of being affected.
• n. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
• n. An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
• n. A feeling of love or strong attachment.
• n. (medicine, archaic) Disease; morbid symptom; malady.
• v. to feel an affection, emotion or love for.

affectionateness

• n. The state or quality of being affectionate.

feeling

• adj. Emotionally sensitive.
• adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
• n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
• n. Emotion; impression.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
• n. Intuition.
• n. An opinion, an attitude.
• v. present participle of feel.

fondness

• n. the quality of being fond.

heart

• n. (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of…
• n. (uncountable) Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
• n. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage,…
• n. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
• n. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
• n. (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
• n. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.
• n. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
• n. The centre, essence, or core.
• v. (transitive, poetic or humorous) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
• v. (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce…

philia

• n. friendship (translating Greek φιλία in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics).
• n. liking.
• n. (countable) a psychological disorder characterized by an irrational favorable disposition towards something.

tenderness

• n. a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings.
• n. concern for the feelings or welfare of others.
• n. pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched.

warmheartedness

• n. the quality of being warmhearted.

warmness

• n. the state of being warm; warmth.