Affect Synonyms & Definitions

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• AffectDefinition & Meaning in English

  1. (v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
  2. (v. t.) To love; to regard with affection.
  3. (v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
  4. (v. t.) To assign; to appoint.
  5. (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
  6. (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
  7. (v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
  8. (v. t.) To dispose or incline.
  9. (v. t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
  10. (v. t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
  11. (n.) 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.

• AffectedDefinition & Meaning in English

  1. (p. p. & a.) Regarded with affection; beloved.
  2. (p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.
  3. (imp. & p. p.) of Affect
  4. (p. p. & a.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.
  5. (p. p. & a.) Assumed artificially; not natural.
  6. (p. p. & a.) Inclined; disposed; attached.

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