affect
IPA: ʌfˈɛkt
noun
- (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
- (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
- (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
verb
- (transitive) To influence or alter.
- (transitive) To move to emotion.
- (transitive, pathology) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
- (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
- (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
- (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
- (transitive, Scotland, law) To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction.
- (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.
- (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
- (transitive, rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
- (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
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