Describing Words
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nose,
winter,
blue eyes,
woman
Here are some adjectives for affection. You can get the definitions of these adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to affection (and find more here).
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Words to Describe affection
Below is a list of describing words for affection. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe affection:
fond, general lively maternal double and sacred grateful and open sheer, disgraceful nonpaternal paternal and nonpaternal tasteful and thoughtful quiet, proprietary disinterested and absurd childlike, credulous lonely pure inexpressible and very singular pure, fraternal special and boundless watchful, tireless sincere and unbounded sincere inviolable sufficiently deep and stable filial and conjugal merely canine mutual and engrossing uneasy and carnal suspicious, uneasy and carnal loyal and vehement furious and indiscreet principal and immoderate dutiful filial [maternal anxious and filial sullen and almost animal old-fashioned, inveterate secret but partial innocent bold wholly unrequited hopeless and wholly unrequited chronic, intermittent anxious and disinterested spontaneous, long-suffering foolish fruitless true but reckless fond reciprocal kindred and natural grateful and extravagant open, unabashed unreasoning and fierce purest and most steadfast strange back-door deep and uncertain obvious and ardent sentimentally superstitious honours--filial ardent self-sacrificing ardent submissive deep-seated nervous constant, good childlike credulous genuinely maternal unalterable and profound formal, platonic monstrous and cynical maternal and fraternal mother--reciprocal mutual strong sadly inoperative joyful and proud once mutual always sympathetic and receptive frenzied and anxious pitiful and unreasoning spontaneous and boundless weak or abject singular conjugal ardent or overbearing thoroughly high and sincere deep and ill-starred dormant filial unqualified mutual undiminished and unalterable condescending, curious ardent filial noble honest real and virtuous genuine, ever-growing evident real particular companionable unconditional, true sometimes plain keenest parental unhappy and immortal frank and evident rough maternal contemptuous but real slightly contemptuous but real clearly tolerant broad, uncritical curiously invincible awful and reverential forth warm and enthusiastic unnatural and disordered strongest paternal mysterious and extremely painful genuine generous vile hypochondriacal inspiring sweet partial and cordial unabated and steady mysteriously humorous therefore inspiring rare but characteristic long and deep-rooted thoughtful, watchful cat--parental feeling--parental alarming rheumatic dangerous rheumatic strongest pious much unparalleled proud, joyful genuine or strong troublesome and often painful dutiful and disinterested strong or general undivided and unbounded pure, narrow vehement imperious stupid, conventional sober, beautiful and restful disinterested maternal temperate and generous unfortunately deep lavish canine romantic or exalted carnal and inordinate bare better conjugal, filial and paternal ancient and particular vehement paternal felial dearest, purest solid and long-established fancy, temporary --paternal and filial steadfast and even chivalrous generous filial indiscriminate, immoral merely accidental or occasional mutual and great inspiring filial mournful ecstatic clear-eyed, uplifting seemingly paternal deep and almost life-long deep, unchanged positive, sensual covetous and wide fearless and open last and passionate healthy and almost paternal fond grateful mutual soft sweet and unchangeable loud momentary warm and almost filial lukewarm and imperfect simple, fond inexpressible, guileless fearful but deep enough disinterested natural and chivalrous filial or parental ordinary filial sincere and undisguised maternal and filial real and overpowering narrow intense zeal and anxious quick, remorseful idle and fantastic instinctive maternal spiritual, disinterested grave cerebral pale and unconvincing real, generous conjugal and parental infant physical great, supportive genuine paternal solid sincere profound and remorseful coarse, grim blind maternal fatal, unrequited compassionate habitual wistful, animal former loathsome wet and desperate reluctant and grudging former inescapable gruff, indulgent vaguely infuriating overly well-developed innocent and forthcoming partial unenlightened enlightened maternal duty--parental blind unsettled intense, unmistakable mere unrequited sir--mutual stern but undying dearest, eternal unjust or immoderate genuine, deep-rooted respective modest devout paternal convenient bronchial violent maternal posthumous filial strange, paternal sublime maternal prenatal and unconscious almost prenatal and unconscious warmer personal pure, supersensual supersensual, self-sacrificing laudable and steady transient, true real, prematrimonial cordial mutual else unselfish cool and unsubstantial wholesome, boyish calm fraternal self-sacrificing, generous steadfast conjugal secret but mutual gastric and rheumatic unstained and pure purest and most ardent whimsical, perplexed passionate and unreasoning reverent and deep fraternal, patriotic strong durable narrow generous easy, loud-voiced due paternal foregone and mortal sympathetic and profound contrary, true and heartfelt long and very sincere happy, selfish amiable interesting impulsive maternal sentimental and platonic slight gonorrheal minimum personal unbounded, undying wistful and stealthy steadfast, virtuous mild, cat-like real habitual nearer and constant royal and somewhat condescending undying, all-pervading life-long conjugal stronger fraternal perhaps ill-conceived violent and perhaps ill-conceived warm proprietary surely ungovernable real but secret pure and warm pious and general habitual, systematic deserving boundless deep and exclusive sweet and mutual apparent unaltered dormant but hallowed good-humored innocent traditional and vicarious mild temporary quaint and placid fond but innocent pious and especial lavish, ecstatic ridiculously commonplace and comfortable nature--natural kindred and domestic warm and unchanged vague pure vague selfish latent and real intense fraternal loose and fickle prudent, commendable unfailing and undying warm filial maternal and slightly compassionate fruitful and grateful barren and selfish constant and unaltered peculiar and almost hereditary fondest paternal hot pained ardent and unchangeable zealous and thoughtful splendid and constant high and entire unthinking, superficial endearing and mutual unalterable and unflinching disinterested and abiding painful, irritating anxious and immoderate genuine but mild distressing nor dangerous ardent and paternal pure and heroical true and unpremeditated filial and personal sincere and equal hearty and intense cordial and life-long strictly parental pure and unconquerable entire and fervent mutual undying unalterable and entire lukewarm and intermittent rare nervous constant and mutual warm, careless virtuous pure fond and blind torrential, passionate fond and emotional --connubial extraordinary fortunate selective and partial genuine and faithful enthusiastic but temporary exacting, meticulous profound and sure purest conjugal strange but constant usual inordinate cordial and absolute inward hearty creditable paternal almost repentant genuinely filial greatly unselfish conjugal nor maternal constitutional inflammatory way--natural naive, spontaneous zealous and protective strong conjugal faultless conjugal conspicuous maternal fond personal real, all-pervading sacred and life-long pious & religious selfish and dissocial expansive sentimental common and very obstinate undying and tranquil timid but faithful sheer prehistoric superior and instructive terribly superior and instructive unalterable and undying restless, exacting bygone childish unselfish mutual generous and humble reasonable, comfortable sentimental and moderate sincere and hopeless disinterested and persistent illogical and selfish immediately inspiring sincere and invariable deep-seated and unalterable dumb, vehement passionate and indestructible exclusive, passionate and indestructible unselfish maternal unaltered and unchanged stubborn domestic hallowed and sincere sincere and uncontrollable deepest parental spiritual and pure visionary, celestial deep-seated, internal inspiring, strange fond, boundless characteristic and serious mild, inflammatory latent, true inveterate and deep-rooted effusive domestic warm, unbounded active and considerate ever active and considerate sweetest, sincerest conjugal, paternal and filial ardent strong silent but ardent truest and most ardent unusual strong indestructible, faithful strong reverential profound, essential pure and most intense passionate and unbounded flush paternal forth guileless quasi-sororal quasi-filial, quasi-sororal uncommon gracious quicker and shallower late but ardent unwise but generous disinterested and ideal inspiring disinterested passionate and constant deep and uncritical common and exclusive canine and feminine sweet and perishable fondest and most exclusive sincere and calm mutual and somewhat exorbitant paternal and sincere delicate, derivative eager maternal positive and ordinary lawful and reciprocal permanent nervous undoubtedly mutual same pulmonary spontaneous paternal healthy and superficial sincere and lifelong equally disinterested and noble hopeless, unrequited mutual pure special but pure manifest undue true but pure chaste, timid old reciprocal young and mutual deepest, truest and holiest limitless, boundless incurable rheumatic warm benevolent loyal, warm indulgent and often absent-minded obvious warm common and often obstinate progressive rheumatic local nasal progressive gouty entirely functional or neurotic finally warm silly second-hand awake deep deepest mutual deep and long-lived chaste, constant and ardent blind and almost unreasoning periodical and painful passionate and mutual ardent and parental general filial peculiar nutritive long and unchanged parental and natural filial, parental and natural purest and most anxious grateful and filial special and uncommon sincere paternal pure and endearing personal nor mental unbounded lawless initial and irrepressible thoughtful, intense warm and undisguised passionate and well-founded forlorn, remorseful universal and almost personal proudest and fondest hallowed parental perfect and reciprocal sweet dispassionate happy and unselfish singular and paternal considerate and appreciative much dutiful fond unreasoning fatal cancerous common benignant always incurable acute intracranial sincere and watchful humble great strong, unalterable deep and indubitable ardent and almost overpowering loyal, unalterable happiness--mutual still fresh and young warm, unrestrained however ardent and self-sacrificing however ardent spurious fawning unreasoning, jealous curious and indiscriminate maternal or conjugal pure and sedate enthusiastic filial overpoweringly intense real and honorable cartarrhal own saner testy, impulsive undying, boundless ostrich, conjugal delightful and frank artistic or sentimental intimate sacred constant, durable indulgent, filial deep, deepest unusually strong and ardent gentle platonic reverent and entire intense mournful instinctive or personal abundant grand-paternal juan’--mutual indulgent and thoughtless inspiring sincere unchangeable mutual grateful, wistful singularly undivided romantic enthusiastic chronic laryngeal transcendental personal profound but harsh deeper, fonder noble, straightforward genuine, calm certainly mutual purposeless filial feigned and fawning weak and reprehensible unmistakable disinterested beautiful inexpressible vivid, uncontrollable entire, unalterable annoying and unbearable thoroughly high worth, deep perfect and heroic profound and pure thine endearing legitimate or pious enlightened and chivalrous completely filial steady and genuine similar impulsive therefore maternal undying fraternal monarchical, paternalistic last, filial nervous rheumatic beautiful and sane ancient and paternal sympathetic inflammatory troublesome and frequent considerable inflammatory evident respectful unbounded filial exceedingly ephemeral wild and exceedingly ephemeral candid and warm pure and romantic purely spiritual or psychical spiritual or psychical <def>parental strong parental filial and parental deep and unchanging conjugal and filial unlimited human real and warm strongest fraternal filial intense and unreasoning deep and stable always evident truest, fondest new and tolerant almost filial much unspeakable real platonic parental and fraternal much fraternal zeal and singular peculiar hereditary chaste paternal al wicked otherwise organic just glassy essential and sacred natural, inseparable previous pulmonary sudden and persistent your fond grateful and proud parental and filial familiar, dry honest, commonplace little fraternal personal and ardent deep and loyal ardent natural low, earthy ancient fraternal unstoical disinterested and honest pure and grateful hopeless, tragic deep artistic genuine conjugal real maternal warm and abiding unaltered and unalterable old deep-rooted truest and most faithful honest and strong hearty and humble true and regular deep and faithful evident mutual little sincere much filial true, familial almost true sweet, reciprocal less filial distant and dutiful rather distant and dutiful foolish, fanciful manly european strange and abiding back inconceivable absent-minded and occasional same filial random but genuine visible, deep dutiful, distant mild obligatory particularly solicitous paradoxically fierce savage possessive placid and sweet warmer and easier plain disinterested steady, long-standing slow but genuine desperate maternal complacent, lazy deep and long-standing odd and deep sincere and warm uncontrollable and inappropriate naive, childlike strange, self-sacrificing perverse and potentially dangerous ghostly maternal holiest and purest soft, nonbinding painful gouty warm, brief understood—maternal back spontaneous secret unrequited silky and treacherous great and instructive steadfast and high-minded silent, unspoken strongest domestic fondest and most reverential serious, solid capital--filial almost prenatal eager, complacent supersensual, altruistic humanly warm faithful, pure vague, sour special and interested spiritual and filial passionate and uncritical surely special genuine and strong old tolerant thy unbidden deep fraternal deep, fraternal solid, robust loyal and passionate durable domestic true, unalterable ardent and genuine unnatural and excessive approval and ardent human or filial mutual conjugal pent-up, ungratified ridiculously commonplace undying and solitary strong but uncouth warm and paternal abstract but powerful pure, heartfelt stronger filial disinterested, self-sacrificing fierce ironical dumb, primitive inward sinful spiritual parental now chaste intense filial queer cat-like pure and filial severe joint extremely chronic faithful and perfect partial or particular genuine parental filial or paternal somewhat pained feeble and intermittent reverent and enthusiastic strictly filial disinterested, inexpressible distinctly conventional customary unselfish warm and flattering real filial frank spontaneous unaffected conjugal warm instinctive warm true sincere and truest disinterested and spontaneous precious filial sincere reciprocal ordinary, hearty happy, truthful real deep-seated dearer and deeper still dearer and deeper feignedly avowed gentle, reverential ordinarily expansive virtues--filial new and sovereign strictly legitimate and common strong and most praiseworthy old unimpaired pure, fervent spontaneous and active enough sincere mutual and enthusiastical deep and hallowed jealous, fierce chronic, inflammatory bright but mild poor, tardy constant, priceless timorous, apologetic generous and respectful steadfast, warm great and unalterable unalterable and honorable deep conjugal deepest private maternal or filial last paternal simple, unrestrained unhappy nervous faithful and unchanging fine, indulgent passably warm inspiring warm natural, mutual unchanged, unchangeable distinctly physical interested, selfish warm and laudable sincere and fraternal passionate and embarrassing entire and unbounded excessive and undue now unrequited functional or nervous ordinary maternal real and innocent real trustworthy warm and boisterous manifestly pure innocent and praiseworthy great and especial mutual and deep effeminate, sentimental real undisguised deepest and most reverent exclusive, personal jealous, exclusive mutually indulgent immense indulgent filial and sororal strong and innocent fraternal, filial grateful and dutiful stout, proprietary ordinary bread-and-butter often obstinate sacred filial ever awake strongest and most unqualified prevalent contagious animated and ardent strong filial far-off intimate painful inflammatory strong sane unreasonable human fond, undying constant, sincere deepest and fondest troublesome nervous simple, timid congenital constitutional rapid organic instantaneous and profound serious, poetic ardent reciprocal thorough, wholesome sincere and reciprocal exciting powerful fierce and intense fierce, ardent real ardent highest parental fierce all-consuming genuine and warm zeal and faithful inconvenient and unmanageable curious, indulgent own warm-hearted more and warmer common and instinctive generous and unfortunate high and sincere strong and solitary grateful and real law--parental impulsive blind strongest and worthiest passionate and troubled maudlin, sentimental secret and romantic sincere & most cordial scrupulous fraternal modestly filial worthy true faint platonic calm, collateral fervent and heartfelt simplest, holiest sublime filial brief but most sincere spontaneous filial sincere and continuous violent but unrequited life-long mutual sufficiently deserving trusting, insistent real and very warm uncertain and careless distant paternal decomposed, filial and conjugal imperious, petulant paternal or marital self-denial, loyal clean and essentially unselfish fond and loathsome fanciful, fanatical natural, undisguised old and mutual vehement and steady strange pure embarrassing animal warm and unchanging gentle pious warm, disinterested honest and deep strong, nascent short-lived and dubious benevolent and almost paternal warm and inviolable ignorant, vague natural and almost mechanical chronic contagious awake reciprocal evil and inordinate strong mutual severe pulmonary sincere and disinterested unrequited strong maternal --paternal instinctive natural deepest filial slight rheumatic true, disinterested _conjugal such conjugal purest and sincerest ancient good better, fuller serious pulmonary domestic and intimate deep and sincere warm, real mere paternal greater, nobler more, personal calm and warm acute cerebral true heartfelt genuine warm natural filial pure, fond independent organic unchanged and unchangeable watchful, unobtrusive irritating and painful simple and grateful deep, ardent much cordial paternal and filial certain nostalgic steady and unerring grim, cynical local and natural careful and remarkable modest and submissive human, passionate true filial whimsical and compassionate quiet, tolerant true, undying sweetest domestic pure paternal sheer, compelling restless, troublesome deep, disinterested exquisite and innocent deep and sentimental always critical intimate small just filial sleepy, happy ardent mutual steady and deep commonplace and comfortable naitural deep unselfish deep individual odd, appealing sincere and unselfish virtuous and reasonable undying and unalterable strange vicarious undoubtedly considerable truest and fondest
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Words to Describe affection
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "affection" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "affection" are: fond, general, lively maternal, double and sacred, grateful and open, and sheer, disgraceful. There are 995 other words to describe affection listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe affection suits your needs.
If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "affection" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many affection adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is affection?
Describing Words
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
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