affectional
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- affectionally adverb
Etymology
Origin of affectional
First recorded in 1855–60; affection 1 + -al 1
Example Sentences
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Their picture can be read as a tribute to partnership, artistic, or affectional, or both.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023
The proposal would define “sex” as including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, sex assigned at birth, gender identity or expression, affectional or sexual orientation and differences in sex development.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2022
“It is a pathologic and psychiatric diagnosis where an individual person, a child in this case, would be unable to have affectional connection to an adult, to a parent, incapable of exchange of love.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2014
As "community contacts" become more "formal and segmental," says Hill, people turn increasingly to the family "as the source of affectional security that we all crave."
From Time Magazine Archive
She was both fire and strength to him in her regard and sympathy, even though she resented, ever so slightly, his affectional desertion.
From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore
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