showing caring feelings and love for somebody synonym lovingTopics Feelingsc1, Personal qualitiesc1表示关爱的 Oxford Collocations DictionaryAffectionate is used with these nouns:- hug
- kiss
- memory
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Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘disposed, inclined towards’): from French affectionné ‘beloved’ or medieval Latin affectionatus ‘devoted’, from affectio(n-), from afficere ‘to influence’, from ad- ‘at, to’ + facere ‘do’.