affect
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
pathology
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English affecten, from Latin affectāre, from Latin affectus, the participle stem of Latin afficere (“to act upon, influence, affect, attack with disease”), from ad- + facere (“to make, do”). By surface analysis, af- + Latin -fect.
Inflected forms:
form: affects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: affecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: affected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: affected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: affect
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: affect
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: affected
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: affect
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: affectest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: affected
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: affectedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: affects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: affecteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: affected
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: affect
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: affected
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: affect
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: affected
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: affect
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: affecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: affected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: affects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To influence or alter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The experience affected me deeply.
The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.
The climate affected their health and spirits.
Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
gloss: To move to emotion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.
A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.
gloss: Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Hepatitis affects the liver.
gloss: To dispose or incline.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty
gloss: To tend to by affinity or disposition.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.
gloss: To assign; to appoint.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: One of the domestics was affected to his special service.
gloss: To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To feign or pretend.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: The light above the door made it unconvincing to affect that no one was at home.
gloss: A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
pos: noun
examples: if we are afraid of robbers in a dream, the robbers are certainly imaginary, but the fear is real. This draws our attention to the fact that the development of affects [translating Affectentwicklung] in dreams is not amenable to the judgement we make of the rest of the dream-content [...].
A third study demonstrated that the effects of self-affirmation on self-regulated performance were not due to positive affect.
gloss: One's mood or inclination; mental state.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A desire, an appetite.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: affection
affectionate
affective
Derived words: affectability
affectable
affectee
affectingly
affectless
affector
disaffect
interaffect
misaffect
overaffect
reaffect
unaffect
affect display
flat affect
labile affect
pseudobulbar affect
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