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Affect

verb

(past & past part. affected; pres. part. affecting)

Have an effect upon. Synonyms: bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on.

Act physically on; have an effect upon.

Connect closely and often incriminatingly. Synonyms: involve, regard.

Make believe with the intent to deceive. Synonyms: dissemble, feign, pretend, sham. "He shammed a headache"

Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon. Synonyms: impress, move, strike. "This behavior struck me as odd"

noun

The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion.

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"Affect" Quotes from Famous Books

... tragedy, I do but challenge myself that liberty, which other men have taken before me; not that I affect praise by it, for, nos haec novimus esse nihil, only since it was acted in so dull a time of winter, presented in so open and black a theatre, that it wanted (that which is the only grace and setting-out of a tragedy) a full ...

— The White Devil • John Webster

... have a feeling that people eyed them covertly, with significant glances, that they were thrown together by design. Wherever they met, he always fell to her lot as dinner-partner, and he had begun to affect an attitude of proprietorship towards her which was yet too indefinite for her ...

— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell

... slack—degraded, in fact. Our generation is entirely composed of neurasthenics and whimperers; we do nothing but talk of fatigue and exhaustion. But the fault is neither yours nor mine; we are of too little consequence to affect the destiny of a whole generation. We must suppose for that larger, more general causes with a solid raison d'etre from the biological point of view. We are neurasthenics, flabby, renegades, but perhaps ...

— The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... so sensitive to atmospheric changes that a quantity of hydrocyanic acid too minute to affect a man would ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 • Various

... informal reception in the open air, but my friend Watson and I have nearly furnished an additional chapter to what the papers call the Cornish Horror, and we prefer a clear atmosphere for the present. Perhaps, since the matters which we have to discuss will affect you personally in a very intimate fashion, it is as well that we should talk where ...

— The Adventure of the Devil's Foot • Arthur Conan Doyle

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