Usually means: Attraction, affinity, or love toward.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. philia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. -philia: Merriam-Webster
  3. -philia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. -philia, -philia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. philia: Vocabulary.com
  6. philia: Wordnik
  7. -philia, philia: Wiktionary
  8. -philia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. -philia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. -philia: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. -philia, philia: Dictionary.com
  12. -philia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Philia (Greco-Roman magic), Philia (Thrace), Philia (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. philia: FreeDictionary.org
  15. philia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. philia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Philia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. -philia, philia: MyWord.info

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -philia: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Philia, -philia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -philia: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Philia: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  friendship
noun:  liking
noun:  (countable) a psychological disorder characterized by an irrational favorable disposition towards something

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