noun. friendship (translating Greek φιλία in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics)

noun. liking

noun. a psychological disorder characterized by an irrational favorable disposition towards something

noun. a positive feeling of liking

"As mentioned in the first paragraph of this section, philia seems to be the kind of concern for other persons that is most relevant to friendship, and the word, ˜philia,™ sometimes gets translated as friendship; yet philia is in some ways importantly different from what we ordinarily think of as friendship."

feeling  

attachment  fond regard  protectiveness  regard  respect