Look up: affect

1. affect
   [Verb] To influence or to cause someone or something to change.
   Example: The long hours might affect her health.
   See also: effective, effect
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2. affect
   [n] - the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion 2. [v] - have an emotional or cognitive impact upon 3. [v] - have an effect upon 4. [v] - act physically on
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3. Affect
   Attitudes and behaviour that will influence children`s progress at school and their attainment.
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4. Affect
   Feeling or emotion as distinguished from cognition, thought, or action. Affect means mood. Affective disorders are disorders of mood
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5. Affect
   Affect: The emotional tone a person expresses. A person's affect may be appropriate or inappropriate to the situation. One type of inappropriate affect is a flat affect or blunted affect, a common feature of schizophrenia.
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6. affect
   the conscious subjective aspect of an emotion considered apart from bodily changes. Category: Medicine
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7. Affect
   A person's affect is their immediate emotional state which the person can recognise subjectively and which can also be recognised objectively by others. A person's mood is their predominant current affect.
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8. Affect
   Af·fect' (ăf*fĕkt') transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Affected ; present participle & verbal noun Affecting .] [ Latin affectus , past participle of affi...
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9. Affect
   Af·fect' noun [ Latin affectus .] Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [ Obsolete] Shak.
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10. Affect
    Af·fect' noun (Psychotherapy) 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.
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11. 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. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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12. affect
    noun the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
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13. affect
    impress 1 move verb have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; `This child impressed me as unusually mature`; `This behavior struck me as odd`
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14. affect
    impact verb have an effect upon; `Will the new rules affect me?`
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15. affect
    verb act physically on; have an effect upon
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16. affect
    regard verb connect closely and often incriminatingly; `This new ruling affects your business`
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17. affect
    (af´ekt) the external expression of emotion attached to ideas or mental representations of objects. See also mood.
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18. Affect
    • (v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. • (v. t.) To love; to regard with affection. • (v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. • (v. t.) To assign; to appoint. • (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to...
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19. affect
    affect (uh FEKT) 1. As a verb, to influence, to act on, to modfy, to impinge on, to produce an effect on, to change, to modify; concern, relate to, pertain to, interest, regard: 'The rain will affect our plans for a picnic.' 2. To pretend, to feign, to put on, to simulate, to make a pretense of, to assume, to adopt, to imitate, to counterfe...
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20. affect
    Type: Term Pronunciation: af′fekt Definitions: 1. The emotional feeling, tone, and mood attached to a thought, including its external manifestations.
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21. Affect
    (Lat. ad + facere, to do) The inner motive as distinquished from the intention or end of action. Cf. Spinoza, Ethics, bk. III. -- L.W.
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22. Affect
    When used as a descriptor or adjective, `affect` means to change, and usually refers to an emotion or symptom. `Affected`, when used in a description, refers to fake or intentionally assumed behaviour (a changed behaviour), i.e., an affected accent. In general, `to affect` refers to th...
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23. Affect
    (psychology) `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&quo...
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24. Affect
    (philosophy) "`Affect`" (latin `affectus` or `adfectus`) is a concept used in philosophy by Spinoza, Deleuze and Guattari. According to Spinoza`s Ethics III, 3, Definition 3, an affect is an empowerment, and not a simple change or modification. Affects, according to Deleuze, ...
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