affection vs attribute

affection

noun
  • An attribute; a quality or property; a condition. 

  • The act of affecting or acting upon. 

  • The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception. 

  • An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind. 

  • A feeling of love or strong attachment. 

attribute

noun
  • A characteristic or quality of a thing. 

  • That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident. 

  • A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated. 

  • An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention. 

  • A word that qualifies a noun. 

  • An option or setting belonging to some object. 

verb
  • To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc. 

  • To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone. 

How often have the words affection and attribute occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )