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Meanings of philia in English
A positive feeling of liking.
Synonyms
Examples for "heart"
Examples for "heart"
1
Good friends, good food, and some really good southern heart-pickin', foot-stompin' music.
2
Keeping track of these health statistics can help catch heart problems early.
3
Let the simple heart and hope among us Keep our family strong.
4
Congestive heart failure is a major public health problem in western countries.
5
Reducing your stress level can really aid in improving your heart health.
1
It extinguishes natural affection; and no subsequent kindness can rekindle the flame.
2
This affection is a good precisely because it leads to our perfection.
3
To the nation in general the manifesto would breathe nothing but affection.
4
Wanted: experienced food handlers with a GSOH and genuine affection for nibbles.
5
Perhaps not surprisingly, the locals express great affection for this wild place.
1
In the style there is much quaintness, in the sentiment much tenderness.
2
Now, however, seeing her afraid, he felt a sudden wave of tenderness.
3
Local tenderness persisted in the same area, but was less in degree.
4
That middle stage of crisp-tenderness is often the best-tasting for grilled produce.
5
The tenderness of the appeal smote the poor woman to the heart.
1
Henry engenders great respect, but people view Willie by excitement and fondness.
2
Director James Houston also has a fondness for Cold War era technology.
3
Brownie's never mentioned a particular fondness for such folly in the past.
4
Given my fondness for you, I prefer to embrace the second theory.
5
He also has a fondness for the small and least used ones.
1
Sally's appealing affectionateness of manner went very far to make this easy.
2
There was an additional playful affectionateness in his manner toward Ezra.
3
He left behind him a character for affectionateness, kindliness, and generosity.
4
There is a homely poetry, an innocent affectionateness in it, characteristic of the people.
5
The Frenchwoman thought it a pretty bit of childish affectionateness.
1
The luke warmness and hypocrisy of Christians now permit me to speak tonight.
2
Relations have useful meaning; absolute warmness and coldness have none.
3
But his intuition did not reconcile him to Ned's luke-warmness; he would have preferred a straight refusal.
4
On this account they writ to Fucarandono, with all the warmness of an earnest invitation, and sent him word.
5
Her eyes were closed now, gently, and he put out his hand to feel the warmness of breath on his palm.
1
Bishop Peck was a very entertaining companion and most fraternal in his warmheartedness.
2
Nevertheless, the film and especially Khan hold on to their integrity through conviction and warmheartedness.
3
Even if it doesn't have the instant mythic appeal of Bouncers and Up'n'Under, it displays a similar warmheartedness.
4
It is this real phoniness -as well as Holly's warmheartedness -that the film captures so well.
Usage of philia in English
1
Most men assumed that they did it by waving their philia about.
2
His philia were waving excitedly, and all of his muscles had tensed.
3
Their philia drooped in exhaustion, hanging from their heads like dead vines.
4
He held Averan up to study her, and his philia waved.
5
The philia along its jaw line quivered as if in anticipation.
6
The foremost skidded, trying to stop, its philia waving in alarm.
7
The Consort of Shadows backed up the wall, its philia waving.
8
Nothing may show except for one or two philia, lying above the surface.
9
A philia would imply love, possibly of freedom or opportunity.
10
They faced east into the morning light, philia waving excitedly.
11
In case you didn't notice," Averan said, "I don't have any philia."
12
For Aristotle, philia was the most perfect form of friendship.
13
Reavers have no eyes; instead, their philia sense life in ways she couldn't understand.
14
Furthermore, they seemed to peer toward the castle, all of their philia waving madly.
15
It skidded to a halt and whirled, its philia writhing as it spotted Borenson.
16
He was huge, towering above her, peering at her with philia that merely twitched.
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