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Affect Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Affect?
[n] the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
[v] act physically on; have an effect upon [v] have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?" [v] make believe; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [v] have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" [v] connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business" Synonyms | Synonyms for Affect: bear on | bear upon | dissemble | feign | impact | impress | involve | move | pretend | regard | sham | strike | touch | touch on Related Terms | Find terms related to Affect: act | act a part | act like | act on | act upon | actuate | adopt | affect | affection | affectivity | agitate | alter | answer to | appertain to | apply to | assume | attack | attitude | be dressed in | bear on | bear upon | belong to | bend | betoken | bias | bluff | borrow | brandish | breathe | bring | bring forth | bring forward | bring into view | bring out | bring to notice | call for | carry | change | choose | chorus | color | come home to | comprise | concentrate on | concern | connect | contain | copy | correspond to | counterfeit | cover up | crib | dangle | deal with | demonstrate | develop | disclose | display | dispose | dissemble | dissimulate | ditto | divulge | do | do a bit | do like | dramatize | draw | drive | echo | embody | emotion | emotional charge | emotional shade | emotivity | enact | entail | evidence | evince | exhibit | experience | expose to view | express | fake | feeling | feeling tone | feign | flaunt | flourish | focus on | foreboding | forge | four-flush | gammon | get | give sign | give token | go deep | go like | go through one | grieve | gut reaction | hang out | haunt | have connection with | have on | heartthrob | highlight | histrionize | hit | hit the mark | hoke | hoke up | illuminate | imitate | impel | implicate | imply | impress | impress forcibly | impression | incarnate | incline | indicate | induce | influence | inspire | interest | involve | lay hold of | lead | lead to | let on | let on like | liaise with | link with | make a pretense | make an impression | make as if | make believe | make clear | make like | make out like | make plain | manifest | materialize | mean | melt | melt the heart | mental attitude | mirror | modify | move | operate on | opinion | overact | parade | passion | penetrate | perform | persuade | pertain to | perturb | pierce | plagiarize | play | play a part | play a scene | play possum | playact | position | posture | predispose | present | presentiment | presume | presuppose | pretend | pretend to | produce | profess | profound sense | prompt | psychology | put on | put on airs | reach | reaction | reecho | refer to | reflect | regard | relate to | repeat | represent | require | resort | respect | response | reveal | rock | roll out | sadden | select | sensation | sense | sentiment | set forth | sham | show | show forth | simulate | sink in | smart | smite | soften | soften up | sport | spotlight | stance | sting | stir | strike | strike hard | strike home | subsume | sway | take | take in | tell | tie in with | tinge | token | tone | touch | touch a chord | touch upon | transform | traumatize | treat | treat of | trot out | trouble | tug the heartstrings | undercurrent | unfold | upset | use | wave | way of thinking | wear | wear down | weigh with | work See Also | act upon | alter | alter | arouse | attack | bear on | belie | bother | brace | bull | bullshit | change | change | cloud | come to | concern | discommode | disoblige | disturb | endanger | energise | energize | experience | expose | fake | feel | feeling | hit | hit home | implicate | incommode | inconvenience | inebriate | infect | influence | ingrain | instill | intoxicate | jar | jaundice | loosen up | make relaxed | misrepresent | mouth | peril | perk up | pertain | pierce | play possum | process | put out | queer | redound | refer | register | relate | relax | repercuss | sadden | scupper | smite | soak | stimulate | stir | strain | strike | strike a blow | strike a chord | strike a note | strike dumb | strike home | subject | sweep away | sweep off | take a dive | tell on | tense | tense up | touch | touch | touch on | treat | trouble | trouble | ulcerate | unlax | unstrain | unwind | upset | work | zap Affect In Webster's Dictionary \Af*fect"\ ([a^]f*f[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Affected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Affecting}.] [L. affectus, p. p.
of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make:
cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See
{Fact}.]
1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
As might affect the earth with cold heat. --Milton.
The climate affected their health and spirits.
--Macaulay.
2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to
touch.
A consideration of the rationale of our passions
seems to me very necessary for all who would affect
them upon solid and pure principles. --Burke.
3. To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.]
As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than
affected, rather honored than loved, her. --Fuller.
4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to
choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit
for it, indeed. --Shak.
Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank,
nor court that of the great. --Hazlitt.
5. To dispose or incline.
Men whom they thought best affected to religion and
their country's liberty. --Milton.
6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.]
This proud man affects imperial ?way. --Dryden.
7. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.
--Newton.
8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to
assume; as, to affect ignorance.
Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem
unaffected. --Congreve.
Thou dost affect my manners. --Shak.
9. To assign; to appoint. [R.]
One of the domestics was affected to his special
service. --Thackeray.
Syn: To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt;
soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume.
\Af*fect"\, n. [L. affectus.] Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [Obs.] --Shak. \Af*fect"\, n. (Psychotherapy) The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea. |
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