disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis†,
idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul,
frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind;
bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity,
propenseness†, propension†, propendency†; vein, humor, mood, grain,
mettle; sympathy &c (love) 897.
soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; heart's core, heart's
strings, heart's blood; heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart,
penetralia mentis [Lat.]; secret and inmost recesses of the heart,
cockles of one's heart; inmost heart, inmost soul; backbone.
passion, pervading spirit; ruling passion, master passion; furore†;
fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of
soul.
energy, fervor, fire, force.
V. have affections, possess affections &c n.; be of a character &c n.;
be affected &c adj.; breathe.
Adj. affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast; attempered†,
tempered; framed; predisposed; prone, inclined; having a bias &c n.;
tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with.
inborn, inbred, ingrained; deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate;
pathoscopic†; congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature,
inherent, in the grain.
affective.
Adv. in one's heart &c n.; at heart; heart and soul &c 821.
Phr. affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set
the heart on fire [Venus and Adonis].