- 2. Concern, interest, regard, relate to, bear upon.
- 3. Touch, move, impress, melt, subdue, overcome, pierce.
- 4. Crave, yearn for, aspire to, aim at, desire, like, be drawn toward, be attracted by, take pleasure in.
- 5. Assume, adopt, take on, feign, arrogate, put on, make a show of, pretend to.
Affectation, n. Pretension, airs, affectedness, mannerism, assumed manners, affected manner, pretence, false pretence, artificiality, unnaturalness, stiffness, finical air, mincingness, foppery.
Affected, a.
- 1. Assumed, feigned, unnatural, artificial, insincere, canting.
- 2. Assuming, pretending, pretentious, conceited, vain, coxcomical, foppish.
Affectedness, n. See affectation.
Affecting, a. Moving, touching, pathetic, piteous, impressive.
Affection, n.
- 1. Feeling, passion, inclination, propensity, proclivity, disposition, predisposition, bent, bias, turn of mind,
cast or frame of mind.
- 2. Attribute, quality, property, character, characteristic, mark, note, accident, modification, mode.
- 3. Love, heart, attachment, kindness, partiality, fondness, liking, tenderness, endearment, regard, good-
will, devotion, tender passion.
- 4. (Med.) Disorder, malady, disease.
Affectionate, a. Loving, fond, attached, devoted, warm, tender, kind, sympathetic, tender-hearted, warm- hearted.
Affiance, v. a. Betroth, engage, plight.
Affidavit, n. Testimony (in writing, signed and sworn to before a magistrate, but given without cross- examination), evidence. See deposition.
Affiliate, v. a.
- 1. Adopt, take or treat as one’s own child.