Affections
Nouns
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affections, affect
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character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone
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temper, temperament
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diathesis, idiosyncrasy
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cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul
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predilection, turn, natural turn of mind
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bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency
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vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle
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sympathy etc. (love) Love. soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man
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heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood
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heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart
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secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one's heart
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inmost heart, inmost soul
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backbone. passion, pervading spirit
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ruling passion, master passion
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furore
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fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul. energy, fervor, fire, force.
Verbs
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have affections, possess affections etc. n.
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be of a character etc. n.
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be affected etc. adj.
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breathe.
Adjectives
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affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast
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attempered, tempered
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framed
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predisposed
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prone, inclined
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having a bias etc. n.
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tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with. inborn, inbred, ingrained
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deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate
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pathoscopic
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congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain. affective.
Adverbs
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in one's heart etc. n.
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at heart
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heart and soul etc. Feeling.
Phrases
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affection is a coal that must be cool'd else affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set the heart on fire" [Venus and Adonis].