[af.fec.tion] n [ME, fr. OF affection, fr. L affection-, affectio, fr. afficere] (13c) 1: a moderate feeling or emotion
2: tender attachment: fondness "she had a deep ~ for her parents" 3 a (1): a bodily condition (2): disease, malady b: attribute "shape and weight are ~s of bodies"
4. obs: partiality, prejudice
5: the feeling aspect (as in pleasure) of consciousness
6. a: propensity, disposition b archaic: affectation 1 7: the action of affecting: the state of being affected syn see feeling -- af.fec.tion.less adj