Definitions for affect
əˈfɛkt; ˈæf ɛktaf·fect

Princeton's WordNet(4.14 / 7 votes)Rate this definition:

1. affect(verb)

   the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion

2. affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch(verb)

   have an effect upon

   "Will the new rules affect me?"

3. affect(verb)

   act physically on; have an effect upon

   "the medicine affects my heart rate"

4. involve, affect, regard(verb)

   connect closely and often incriminatingly

   "This new ruling affects your business"

5. feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble(verb)

   make believe with the intent to deceive

   "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

6. affect, impress, move, strike(verb)

   have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

   "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Affect(verb)

   to act upon; to produce an effect or change upon

2. Affect(verb)

   to influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch

3. Affect(verb)

   to love; to regard with affection

4. Affect(verb)

   to show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually

5. Affect(verb)

   to dispose or incline

6. Affect(verb)

   to aim at; to aspire; to covet

7. Affect(verb)

   to tend to by affinity or disposition

8. Affect(verb)

   to make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance

9. Affect(verb)

   to assign; to appoint

10. Affect(noun)

    affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition

Origin: [L. affectus.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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". The affective domain represents one of the three divisions described in modern psychology: the cognitive, the conative, and the affective. Classically, these divisions have also been referred to as the "ABC of psychology", in that case using the terms "affect", "behavior", and "cognition". In certain views, the conative may be considered as a part of the affective, or the affective as a part of the cognitive.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Affect

   af-fekt′, v.t. to act upon: to produce a change upon: to move the feelings: to assign, apply (only in pass.).—adj. Affect′ed, touched with a feeling either for or against (with by): full of affectation: feigned.—adv. Affect′edly.—n. Affect′edness.—adj. Affect′ing, having power to move the passions: pathetic.—adv. Affect′ingly. [L. afficĕre, affectum—ad, to, facĕre, to do.]

2. Affect

   af-fekt′, v.t. to make a show or pretence of, to assume, to counterfeit or pretend to, to take upon one's self to: (obs.) to aim at, seek to obtain: (arch.) have a liking for, to love: to practise, wear, or frequent: to haunt or inhabit by preference.—n. Affectā′tion, a striving after, or an attempt to assume, what is not natural or real: pretence. [L. affectāre, freq. of afficĕre. See Affect above.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Affect

   The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'affect' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2232

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'affect' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1926

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'affect' in Verbs Frequency: #169

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of affect in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of affect in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of affect in a Sentence

1. Michael Tipsword:

   It doesn't affect my thoughts.

2. Oliver Charles:

   That could affect my business.

3. Benjamin Disraeli:

   Little things affect little minds.

4. Oliver Fowler:

   It's really going to affect the industry.

5. Lin Gui-cheng:

   This (vote) will affect our economic prosperity.

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