different between affection vs respect

English

Etymology

From Middle English affection, affeccion, affeccioun, from Old French affection, from Latin affecti?nem, from affecti?; see affect.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??f?k??n/
• Hyphenation: af?fec?tion
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

affection (countable and uncountable, plural affections)

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.
   • 1756, Robert Simson, Euclid's Elements

     A Porism is a proposition in which it is proposed to demonstrate that some one thing, or more things than one, are given, to which, as also to each of innumerable other things, not given indeed, but which have the same relation to those which are given, it is to be shewn that there belongs some common affection described in the proposition.

4. An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
   • 1905, John C. Ager (translator), Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell Chapter 27

     It is known that each individual has a variety of affections, one affection when in joy, another when in grief, another when in sympathy and compassion, another when in sincerity and truth, another when in love and charity, another when in zeal or in anger, another when in simulation and deceit, another when in quest of honor and glory, and so on.

5. A feeling of love or strong attachment.
   • 1908, Gorge Bernard Shaw, Getting Married/Spurious "Natural" Affection

     What is more, they are protected from even such discomfort as the dislike of his prisoners may cause to a gaoler by the hypnotism of the convention that the natural relation between husband and wife and parent and child is one of intense affection, and that to feel any other sentiment towards a member of one's family is to be a monster.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Chapter 61

     Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He delighted in going to Pemberley, especially when he was least expected.

6. (medicine, archaic) Disease; morbid symptom; malady.
   • 1907, The Medical Brief (volume 35, page 840)

     A heavy clay soil is bad for all neuralgics, and the house should be dry, and on a sandy or gravel soil. The desideratum for all neuralgic affections is perpetual summer […]

Usage notes

In the sense of "feeling of love or strong attachment", it is often in the plural; formerly followed by "to", but now more generally by "for" or "toward(s)", for example filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children

Synonyms

• (kind feeling): attachment, fondness, kindness, love, passion, tenderness

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

affection (third-person singular simple present affections, present participle affectioning, simple past and past participle affectioned)

1. (now rare) To feel affection for. [from 16th c.]
   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, V:

     Why, truth is truth, I do not think my lady Isabella ever much affectioned my young lord, your son: yet he was a sweet youth as one should see.

Translations

Further reading

• affection at OneLook Dictionary Search
• affection in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• affection in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin affecti?, affecti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.f?k.sj??/

Noun

affection f (plural affections)

1. affection, love, fondness
2. medical condition, complaint, disease

Further reading

• “affection” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Scots

Noun

affection (plural affections)

1. affection

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Etymology

From Middle English respect, from Old French respect, also respit (“respect, regard, consideration”), from Latin respectus (“a looking at, regard, respect”), perfect passive participle of respici? (“look at, look back upon, respect”), from re- (“back”) + speci? (“to see”). Doublet of respite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???sp?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt
• Hyphenation: re?spect

Noun

respect (countable and uncountable, plural respects)

1. (uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high regard

   Synonyms: deference, esteem, consideration, regard, fealty, reverence, aught

2. (uncountable) good opinion, honor, or admiration

   Synonyms: admiration, esteem, reverence, regard, recognition, veneration, honor

3. (uncountable, always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.

4. (countable) a particular aspect, feature or detail of something
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:

     In our two loves there is but one respect

   Synonyms: aspect, dimension, face, facet, side

5. Good will; favor
   • 1611, King James Version, Exodus 2:25:

     And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "respect": great, high, utmost, absolute

Antonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• respective

Translations

Verb

respect (third-person singular simple present respects, present participle respecting, simple past and past participle respected)

1. To have respect for.

2. To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.

3. To abide by an agreement.

4. To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.
5. (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.
   • 1806, James Lee, An Introduction to Botany:

     Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles.
6. (obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem.
7. (obsolete) To look toward; to face.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (to have respect for): esteem, honor, revere, venerate
• (to regard as worthy of special consideration): esteem, value
• (to abide by an agreement): honor

Antonyms

• (to have respect for): contemn, despect (verb) (archaic), despise, dis, diss, disrespect (verb)
• (to regard as worthy of special consideration): belittle, ignore, neglect, slight

Translations

Interjection

respect

1. (Jamaican) hello, hi

References

• respect at OneLook Dictionary Search
• respect in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• respect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• respect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Sceptre, recepts, scepter, sceptre, specter, spectre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French respect, from Old French respect, from Latin respectus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?s?p?kt/, /r??sp?kt/
• Hyphenation: res?pect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

respect n (uncountable)

1. respect

   Synonym: eerbied

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: respek
• ? Indonesian: respek

French

Etymology

From Latin respectus. Doublet of répit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.p?/

Noun

respect m (plural respects)

1. respect

Derived terms

• avec tout le respect que je vous dois
• respecter
• respectueux
• sauf votre respect
• tenir en respect

Further reading

• “respect” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• spectre

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• respeck

Etymology

From English respect.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s?sp?k/
• Hyphenation: res?pect

Interjection

respect

1. greetings, hello, hi
   • (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

2. bye, goodbye
   • (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

See also

• guidance
• manners
• protection

Noun

respect

1. respect

   Synonym: ratings

Derived terms

• respect due

Verb

respect

1. respect

   Synonym: rate

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French respect, Latin respectus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /res?pekt/

Noun

respect n (uncountable)

1. respect, consideration, deference, esteem, regard

   Synonym: stim?

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• respect in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)