Roget's Thesaurus

#820. 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) 897. soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood; heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis [Lat.]; 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. 821.

Phrases

affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set the heart on fire [Venus and Adonis].