Affect (IPA: /əˈfɛkt/)
| Affect (v. t.) |
To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. |
| Affect (v. t.) |
To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. |
| Affect (v. t.) |
To love; to regard with affection. |
| Affect (v. t.) |
To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. |
| Affect (v. t.) |
To dispose or incline. |
| Affect (v. t.) |
To aim at; to aspire; to covet. |
| Affect (v. t.) |
To tend to by affinity or disposition. |
| Affect (v. t.) |
To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. |
| Affect (v. t.) |
To assign; to appoint. |
| Affect (n.) |
Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. |
| Affect |
Experience of feeling or emotion |
| Affect |
Concept, used in the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza and elaborated by Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari |
| Affect |
Attitude or emotion of an utterance |
| Affect Synonyms |
Pretend, Dissemble, Feign, Sham |
| Affect Synonyms |
Impact, Touch On, Bear Upon, Touch, Bear On |
| Affect Synonyms |
Strike, Impress, Move |
| Affect Synonyms |
Regard, Involve |
| Translations |
Affect in Spanish |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation." - Paul Karl Feyerabend |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Don't let any of the incidents happening now affect the will of Egyptians." - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people." - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Interviewer: How concerned are you that regional instability will negatively affect foreign investor sentiment?" - Abdullah Ensour |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety." - Birth |
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