affect
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To influence or alter.Examples: "The experience affected me deeply."; "The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction."; "The climate affected their health and spirits."Synonyms: alter, change, have an effect on, influence, play a role in, play a part intransitive
2. (transitive) To move to emotion.Examples: "He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play."; "A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles."Synonyms: move, touchtransitive
3. (transitive, pathology) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).Examples: "Hepatitis affects the liver."Synonyms: attack, harm, infecttransitive
4. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.Examples: "men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty"archaictransitive
5. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.Examples: "The drops of every fluid affect a round figure."archaictransitive
6. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.Examples: "One of the domestics was affected to his special service."archaictransitive
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.Examples: "to affect ignorance"; "to affect a British accent"; "He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable."Synonyms: fake, simulate, feigntransitive
2. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.Examples: "Duke.[...] I loue the people, But doe not like to stage me to their eyes: Though it doe well, I doe not rellish well Their lowd applause, and Aues vehement: Nor doe I thinke the man of safe discretion That do's affect it."; "For it is believed, that he never was married, affecting and embracing Chastity through the whole course of his Life."; "Wiſe are thy words, and glad I would obey, / But this proud man affects imperial ſway."obsoletetransitive
3. (transitive, rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.Examples: "There is a Lady in Verona heere Whom I affect: but she is nice, and coy, And naught esteemes my aged eloquence."; "From that day forth she gan to him affect, / And daily more her favour to augment […]"; "A young gentlewoman in Basil was married[…]to an ancient man against her will, whom she could not affect; she was continually melancholy, and pined away for grief […]"raretransitive
4. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.Examples: "Amongst humane conditions this one is very common, that we are rather pleased with strange things then with our owne; we love changes, affect alterations, and like innovations."; "Go, let him have a table by himself, for he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for’t, indeed."; "1825, William Hazlitt, “On the Conduct of life: or Advice to a schoolboy” in Table-Talk Volume II, Paris: A. & W. Galignani, p. 284, Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great."obsoletetransitive
noun (English)
1. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.Examples: "if we are afraid of robbers in a dream, the robbers are certainly imaginary, but the fear is real. This draws our attention to the fact that the development of affects [translating Affectentwicklung] in dreams is not amenable to the judgement we make of the rest of the dream-content [...]."; "A third study demonstrated that the effects of self-affirmation on self-regulated performance were not due to positive affect."
2. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.obsolete
3. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary