affection vs verb

affection

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

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

  • A feeling of love or strong attachment. 

verb

noun
  • An action as opposed to a trait or thing. 

  • A named command that performs a specific operation on an object. 

  • A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. 

verb
  • To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb. 

  • To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb. 

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