Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Affections

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