v. t. | 1. | To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. |
2. | To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. | |
3. | To love; to regard with affection. | |
4. | To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. | |
5. | To dispose or incline. | |
6. | To aim at; to aspire; to covet. | |
7. | To tend to by affinity or disposition. | |
8. | To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; | |
9. | To assign; to appoint. | |
n. | 1. | Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. |
2. | (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. |
Noun | 1. | affect - the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion |
Verb | 1. | affect - have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?" |
2. | affect - act physically on; have an effect upon | |
3. | affect - connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business" | |
4. | affect - make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" | |
5. | affect - have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" |