Affectation vs. Affection vs. Affecting| Which one is good affectation or affection?

Affectation, Affection, Affection. It seems that these words are synonyms as they are all taken from the same word affect. The case is not that simple, though.
In this post we see a detail information about these words.





Quick Look

Difference between Affectation, Affection, and Affecting?
Affectation means artificial behaviour to impress and win someone.
Affection means love, fondness. It means genuine love for something or someone.
Affecting means touching causing a feeling of sadness or sympathy.

affectation, affection, affecting, affected, affectionate



    What is the meaning of Affectation?

    Affectation is a noun. Affectation is a false, unnatural behaviour showing or pretending a quality or trait that is meant to impress someone.
    • Her English accent is an affectation.
    • He is a good man without any sort of affectation.
    • She cried with an affectation when her friend won the medal.

    What is the meaning of Affection?

     Affection is noun. It is the feeling of liking somebody or something very much and caring about them.
    • Children need lots of love and affection.
    • My father doesn't show any affection.
    In plural, affections means feelings of love. It shows a person's sexual and romantic feelings.
    • The girls competed for the affections of the same man.

    What is the meaning of Affecting?

    Affecting is an adjective.
    It means something like music, film, story, etc, which produces strong feelings of sadness and sympathy.
    • His dialogue in the film produces affecting effects.


    What is the difference between affectation, affection, and affecting?

    Affectation is all about being fake. You behave like something that you are not. You pretend to impress someone. You are a poor guy. But you dress like a rich, you walk like a rich, talk like a rich. All sorts of your behaviour being rich is affectation.

    Affection is a genuine feeling of liking someone or something. When a wife cares her hubby, it show hers affection for her hubby. 

    Affecting means touching that brings tears in your eyes, fills your nose with water.

    According too Good Word Guide-
    Affectation is false behaviour that is intended to impress; affection means 'fondness' or 'tenderness'. The two nouns are related to different meanings of the verb affect and should not be confused.

    Important Points
    Beware of the word Effective and Affective.

    Affecting can be "ing" form of verb Affect.

    In medical, affection means the condition of being diseased; abnormal state of body or a part of the body: affection in heart, a gouty affection.

    Affectionate(adjective) means loving and caring for somebody openly.
    Affected(adjective) means unnatural, fake: an affected voice (fake voice).  

    In a nutshell
    Affectation means fake behaviour.
    Affection means liking, fondness, love for something or someone.
    Affecting means producing strong feelings sadness and sympathy.


    Test on real-world sentence examples


    His appearance changed over the years along with his  ...............s, such as a fan he at one time carried and fluttered incessantly.
    [1] Affectation
    [2] Affection
    [3] Affecting


    He begins his book with an  .............. description of his difficult childhood.
    Merriam-Webster's Advance Dictionary
    [1] Affectation
    [2] Affection
    [3] Affecting


    Throughout the ruse, she and her father show their .............. for each other only through vocabulary words they’ve learned together in study drills.
    [1] Affectation
    [2] Affection
    [3] Affecting



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