The phrase "affectionate understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a deep, caring comprehension of someone's feelings or situation.
Example: "Her affectionate understanding of his struggles made him feel supported during difficult times."
Alternatives: "compassionate insight" or "empathetic awareness".
Helen Ferris smiled with affectionate understanding, as if his modesty amused her, but there was also something more.
Ali Pye's dreamy illustrations are as appealing as the child-head teacher Miss Moon, who sports a witch's hat but is otherwise a model of affectionate understanding.
Her book movingly combines the scientific detail of a researcher, intent on showing with "statistical confidence" that Alex "did indeed have this or that cognitive ability," with the affectionate understanding that children (and children's books about animals) instinctively possess: that "animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know".
I had been guided to a region of order, and a passion for science, by two very wise, affectionate, and understanding uncles.
In this film you hear from numerous affectionate and understanding friends and relatives who knew Bess intimately, as well as from interested New Yorkers.
In a typical passage, Raúl is described as "affable, affectionate, human, understanding; who knows how to be serious and demanding but is, at the same time, friendly and capable of listening to a story or enjoying a joke a profoundly human being".
And it is these same sections that showcase his gifts as a novelist: his talent for depicting the ordinary (as opposed to metaphoric or supernatural); his affectionate but astringent understanding of his characters and their imperfections; his appreciation of the dark undertow of loss that lurks beneath the familiar, glossy surface of suburban life.
I am more affectionate, softer, more understanding of choices made by other mothers.
Agape means nothing sentimental or affectionate; it means understanding, redeeming goodwill for all men, an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return.
So when the Puritans wrote of husbands and wives as mutually respectful and affectionate partners they were moving toward a new understanding of marriage as a kind of spiritual friendship.
Characteristically, Schnitzler forestalls the obvious reaction of anger and hatred until the very end of the story and puts his widower through every conceivable emotion — calm, unworldly understanding, generalized cynicism, and a sudden strange, affectionate concern that his friend should not know of his discovery.
