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Philia

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Noun

1. affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness

a positive feeling of liking

Example Sentences:
'he had trouble expressing the affection he felt'
'the child won everyone's heart'
'the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Philia

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combining form in countable noun
1. 
indicating a tendency towards
haemophilia
2. 
indicating an abnormal liking for
necrophilia

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Philia

see synonyms of philia
1. 
tendency toward
hemophilia
2. 
strong or abnormal attraction to
Anglophilia, coprophilia

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Philia

see synonyms of philia
suff.
1. Tendency toward: hemophilia.
2. Attraction to or preference for: Anglophilia.
3. Abnormal attraction to: necrophilia.

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