Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling.
- noun State or condition of body; the way in which a thing is affected or disposed.
- 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.
- 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.
- noun In psychology: The felt or affective component of a motive to action; the incentive, as opposed to the inducement, to act. See the extract.
- noun Emotion.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
- noun (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. - transitive verb To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
- transitive verb To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
- transitive verb obsolete To love; to regard with affection.
- transitive verb To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
- transitive verb To dispose or incline.
- transitive verb obsolete To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
- transitive verb To tend to by affinity or disposition.
- transitive verb To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume.
- transitive verb rare To assign; to appoint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To influence or alter.
- verb transitive To move to emotion.
- verb transitive Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
- verb transitive To aim for, to try to obtain.
- verb transitive To feel
affection for; tolike , be fond of. - verb transitive To make a false display of.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb connect closely and often incriminatingly
- verb have an effect upon
- verb have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- noun the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
- verb make believe with the intent to deceive
- verb act physically on; have an effect upon
Etymologies
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Examples
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Do you think of yourself as a Korean-American writer, and does this acceptance or rejection of the label affect how you write and market your work?
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Do you think of yourself as a Korean-American writer, and does this acceptance or rejection of the label affect how you write and market your work?
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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But one thing it does not affect is certainly the mind and let me tell you, in the film that she had just seen, which was the premiere called Inkheart, it had flying monkeys that were lifted from The Wizard of Oz. Now Megan, 11 years old at the time, told me after the movie was over “Uh Brendan, you know the flying monkeys have been done before.”
Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES – Collider.com 2010
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Each of those ways of using the revenue has different implications for specific households but the “average” affect is still the same.
Wonk Room » Weekly Standard Compounds $3100 GOP Lie With A $3900 Lie 2009
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I prefer a more scientific materialist viewpoint myself, that affect is rooted in the kinaesthetics of physiology and is therefore as much a part of physical nature as any other sensory experience.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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Usually all you can hope to affect is where the 'last seat' in each constituency goes.
Whoniversaries 7 July nwhyte 2010
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Bob Woodward's affect is that of a human tape recorder.
Russ Baker: Woodward, the Post , and the Generals Russ Baker 2010
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How does/did Frankenstein affect art in general during the 19th Century?
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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.
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The net affect is no different, no, but there is significance in this in regards underlying motivation and how one goes about doing something about it.
jrome commented on the word affect
The Placebo Affect*
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/02/the-placebo-aff.html
February 15, 2008
sionnach commented on the word affect
Gee, this reminds me of a certain Amazon review I wrote recently:
Godin review
What was creepy was that I received an e-mail from Seth Godin, expressing regret that I disliked the book so much, with the explanation that it wasn't intended to give advice, but just stimulate discussion. He offered to refund the purchase price. I declined.
February 16, 2008
oroboros commented on the word affect
AffeCT
April 24, 2008
Dan337 commented on the word affect
June 28, 2011
gmazzarell commented on the word affect
I affect an effect. The socialist affected the population with lies about how they want to help the downtrodden and the effect was that they rode into power on the backs of those downtrodden.
August 17, 2011
bilby commented on the word affect
'affected the population with lies' is rather obtuse.
August 17, 2011
glennisaac commented on the word affect
Affect v. "To have an influence on or effect a change in"
Wait a minute... the definition of affect is essentially "to effect"? Why can't the two (affect/effect) be used interchangeably as a verb, then? I'm confused!
January 24, 2012