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affect
Found in thesaurus: feeling, change, modify, alter, bear on, concern, touch on, come to, pertain, refer, relate, touch, belie, misrepresent
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affect
v.
influence; move someone (emotionally); attack (of a disease); act as if, pretend; have a certain disposition towards; have an affinity for
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Affect
Affect may refer to:
- 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
- Blunted affect or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity
- Labile affect, the unstable display of emotion
- Affected accent, see Accent (sociolinguistics)
- Affective computing, an area of research in computer science aiming to understand the emotional state of users
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affect
Noun
1. the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
(hypernym) feeling
(derivation) impress, move, strike
Verb
1. have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
(synonym) impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(hyponym) strike a blow
2. act physically on; have an effect upon
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(hyponym) attack
3. connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
(synonym) involve, regard
(hypernym) refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on
(hyponym) implicate
4. make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
(synonym) feign, sham, pretend, dissemble
(hypernym) misrepresent, belie
(hyponym) play possum
(verb-group) make, pretend, make believe
5. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
(synonym) impress, move, strike
(hyponym) infect
(cause) feel, experience
(verb-group) hit, strike, come to
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affect
nm.
affect, influence
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affect (het)
n.
affect, influence; have a certain disposition towards
