Affection vs Sexual - What's the difference?
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The act of affecting or acting upon.
The state of being affected.
An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc., are affections of bodies.
Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, author=(Mark Cocker)
, volume=189, issue=11, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A feeling of love or strong attachment.
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Chapter 61
(medicine, archaic) Disease; morbid symptom; malady.
* Dunglison
to feel an , emotion or love for.
Of or relating to having sex, sexual acts and sexual reproduction.
Of or relating to gender.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=
, volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Of or relating to sexuality; not asexual.
* 1994 , Purity & passion (ISBN 0802471307), page 67:
Of or relating to sexual orientations, sexual identity or preferences with respect to sexual intercourse
(biology) A species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
(LGBT) A person who experiences attraction, a person who has interest in or desire for sex (especially as contrasted with an asexual).
As nouns the difference between affection and sexual
is that affection is the act of affecting or acting upon while sexual is (biology) a species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.As a verb affection
is to feel an , emotion or love for.As an adjective sexual is
of or relating to having sex, sexual acts and sexual reproduction.affection
English
(wikipedia affection)Noun
(en noun)Wings of Desire, passage=Our affections for wild animals are distributed very unevenly. Take insects. Some 750,000 species have already been documented worldwide and the great American naturalist EO Wilson called them "the little things that run the world". Through their recycling of nutrients and the supply of base-level protein to a vast array of higher life forms, insects underpin the existence of life on this planet. Yet when it comes to human concern for creepy-crawlies, forget it.}}
- Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He delighted in going to Pemberley, especially when he was least expected.
- a pulmonary affection
Synonyms
* (kind feeling) attachment, fondness, kindness, love, passion, tendernessUsage notes
In the sense of "feeling of love or strong attachment", it is often in the plural; formerly followed by "to", but now more generally by "for" or "toward(s)", for example filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards childrenDerived terms
{{der3, affectional , affectionate , affectionated , affectionately , affectionateness , affectioned}}Verb
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Adjective
(en adjective)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
- We don't often think of Jesus as a sexual' person, but He certainly was not asexual. He was not just God on earth. He was fully human and He was ' sexual , single, and celibate.