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affection noun
1 a feeling of love or strong liking.
2 (affections) feelings. 3 a disease.
ETYMOLOGY: 13c: from Latin affectio.

af-fec-tion

–noun

1.	fond attachment, devotion, or love: the affection of a parent for an only child.

Often, affections.

a.	emotion; feeling; sentiment: over and above our reason and affections.

b.	the emotional realm of love: a place in his affections.

3.	Pathology. a disease, or the condition of being diseased; abnormal state of body or mind: a gouty affection.

4.	the act of affecting; act of influencing or acting upon.

5.	the state of being affected.

6.	Philosophy. a contingent, alterable, and accidental state or quality of being.

7.	the affective aspect of a mental process.

8.	bent or disposition of mind.

9.	Obsolete. bias; prejudice.

Origin:
1200–50; ME < OF < L affectiōn- (s. of affectiō) disposition or state of mind or body; see affect 1 , -ion