mutual affection

1. 1.

   sympathy of each person for the other

   Synonymsmutual understanding

   Broadersympathy

Questions about mutual affection

What does mutual affection mean?

mutual affection means "sympathy of each person for the other".

What is another word for mutual affection?

Close synonyms include mutual understanding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mutual affection a common word?

mutual affection is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.