What is English word AFFECTION?

Definitions of AFFECTION

1. The act of affecting or acting upon.
2. 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.
3. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
4. An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
5. A feeling of love or strong attachment.
6. (medicine, archaic) A disease; a morbid symptom; a malady.
7. (now, rare) To feel affection for. [from 16th c.]