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What (who) is Affect - definition
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Affects; Affected; Affect (disambiguation); Affecting
affect
v.
1) to affect smb. deeply, profoundly, strongly
2) (formal and rare) (BE) (E) he affected not to hear
affect
v. a.
1.
Influence, act upon, work upon, modify, alter, change, transform.
2.
Concern, interest, regard, relate to, bear upon.
3.
Touch, move, impress, melt, subdue, overcome, pierce.
4.
Crave, yearn for, aspire to, aim at, desire, like, be drawn toward, be attracted by, take pleasure in.
5.
Assume, adopt, take on, feign, arrogate, put on, make a show of, pretend to.
affect
(affects, affecting, affected)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
Nicotine adversely affects the functioning of the heart and arteries...
...the worst-affected areas of Somalia.
VERB: V n, V-ed
2.
If a disease affects someone, it causes them to become ill.
Arthritis is a crippling disease which affects people all over the world.
= afflict
VERB: V n
3.
If something or someone affects you, they make you feel a strong emotion, especially sadness or pity.
The divorce affected Jim deeply...
VERB: V n
Wikipedia
Affect
Affect may refer to:
- Affect (education)
- Affect (linguistics), attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance
- Affect (philosophy)
- Affect (psychology), the experience of feeling or emotion
- Affect display, signs of emotion, such as facial expression, vocalization, and posture
- Affect theory
- Affective science, the scientific study of emotion
- Affective computing, an area of research in computer science aiming to understand the emotional state of users
- Reduced affect display, a.k.a. emotional blunting or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity
- Pseudobulbar affect, a.k.a. labile affect, the unstable display of emotion
- Affect (rhetoric), the responsive, emotional feeling that precedes cognition
- Affected accent; see Accent (sociolinguistics)
- Affect (company), a defunct Japanese video game developer
Examples of use of Affect
1. Well it will, because it‘ll affect wages, it‘ll affect health care, it‘ll affect where your tax dollars go.
2. While events in Turkey do not affect the world reinsurance market, events that affect the world reinsurance market affect the Turkish one,» he explained.
3. That will not only affect Taiwan but also it will affect the mainland.
4. This will probably affect the nation‘s political life, but it will certainly affect the country‘s spiritual direction.
5. The Booker and Fanfan rulings will affect future sentencing but will not necessarily affect the sentences of those already imprisoned.