AFFECT

Affect

Affect refers to the experience of feeling or emotion. Affect is a key part of the process of an organism's interaction with stimuli. The word also refers sometimes to affect display, which is "a facial, vocal, or gestural behavior that serves as an indicator of affect" .

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affect

Noun

  1. One's mood or inclination; mental state.
  2. A desire, an appetite.
  3. A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.

Verb

  1. To influence or alter.
    The experience affected me deeply.
    The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.
  2. To move to emotion.
    He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.
  3. Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
    Hepatitis affects the liver.
  4. To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume.
    to affect ignorance
  5. To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
  6. To dispose or incline.
  7. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
  8. To assign; to appoint.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To aim for, to try to obtain.
  2. To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
  3. To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
  4. To make a false display of.
    He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.


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