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v. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.

v. To act on the emotions of; touch or move.

v. To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.

n. Feeling or emotion, especially as manifested by facial expression or body language: "The soldiers seen on television had been carefully chosen for blandness of affect” ( Norman Mailer).

n. Obsolete A disposition, feeling, or tendency.

v. To put on a false show of; simulate: affected a British accent.

v. To have or show a liking for: affects dramatic clothes.

v. Archaic To fancy; love.

v. To tend to by nature; tend to assume: a substance that affects crystalline form.

v. To imitate; copy: "Spenser, in affecting the ancients, writ no language” ( Ben Jonson).

v. To influence or alter.

v. To move to emotion.

v. Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).

v. To aim for, to try to obtain.

v. To feel affection for; to like, be fond of.

v. To make a false display of.

v. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

v. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.

v. To love; to regard with affection.

v. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.

v. To dispose or incline.

v. To aim at; to aspire; to covet.

v. To tend to by affinity or disposition.

v. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume.

v. To assign; to appoint.

n. Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.

n. 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.

To aim at; aspire to; endeavor after.

To use or adopt by preference; choose; prefer; tend toward habitually or naturally.

To be pleased with; take pleasure in; fancy; like; love.

To make a show of; put on a pretense of; assume the appearance of; pretend; feign: as, to affect ignorance.

To use as a model; imitate in any way.

To resemble; smack of.

To incline; be disposed.

To make a show; put on airs; manifest affectation.

To act upon; produce an effect or a change upon; influence; move or touch: as, cold affects the body; loss affects our interests.

To urge; incite.

To render liable to a charge of; show to be chargeable with.

To assign; allot; apply: now only in the passive.

Synonyms To work upon; to concern, relate to, interest, bear upon; to melt, soften, subdue, change. Affect and effect are sometimes confused. To affect is to influence, concern; to effect is to accomplish or bring about.

n. Affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling.

n. State or condition of body; the way in which a thing is affected or disposed.

n. In psychology: The felt or affective component of a motive to action; the incentive, as opposed to the inducement, to act. See the extract.

n. Emotion.

n. In Spinoza's philosophy, a modification at once of the psychic and the physical condition, the former element being called an idea and the latter an affection.

v. connect closely and often incriminatingly

v. have an effect upon

v. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

n. the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion

v. make believe with the intent to deceive

v. act physically on; have an effect upon

"During our initial job hunting stages, the post-dot com recession was already in affect, and shortly after graduation, 9-11 really through a wrench into our plans."

affected    affecting    affectional    affectively    affects   

feeling   

influence    taint    thrill    agitate    excite    impress   

affection    affective    affectionate    affecter   

sweep off    hit home    disturb    trouble    sadden    upset    jar    engrave    move    strike a note   

affected    affectingly    affectedly    affectedness    affectation    flat affect    affect display    labile affect   

soften    act on    overcome    concern    operate    subdue    pretend    influence    assume    move   

Brecht    Hecht    Select    bedecked    checked    collect    confect    connect    correct    decked   

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