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affect::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on |
| Type of | alter, change, modify |
| Has types | strike, act upon, bother, color, colour, discommode, disoblige, distort, endanger, excite, expose, hit, hydrolise, hydrolize, incommode, inconvenience, influence, peril, process, put out, queer, redound, repercuss, scupper, slam-dunk, stimulate, strike a blow, subject, tell on, tinge, treat, trouble, work |
Will the new rules affect me?.
affect::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | impress, move, strike |
| Has types | infect, jar, cloud, upset, hit home, trouble, smite, zap, stir, strike a chord, strike a note, strike dumb, strike home, awaken, surprise, sweep away, sweep off, alienate, engrave, move, touch, instill, ingrain, pierce, disturb, impress, sadden |
| Verb group | incite, move, prompt, come to, hit, actuate, strike, propel, motivate |
| Derivation | affective |
affect::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dissemble, feign, pretend, sham |
| Type of | misrepresent, belie |
| Has types | bullshit, fake, mouth, bull, take a dive, play possum, talk through one's hat |
| Verb group | make believe, pretend, make |
affect::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | alter, change, modify |
| Has types | tranquillise, calm, inebriate, perk up, relax, register, unlax, energise, energize, tense up, tense, ulcerate, strain, stimulate, unwind, soak, sedate, brace, tranquillize, intoxicate, jaundice, loosen up, make relaxed, tranquilize, unstrain, cramp, arouse, attack |
the medicine affects my heart rate.
affect::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | feeling |
| Derivation | affectional |
Examples of affect
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Students will move on to ocean currents and how they affect weather and climate.
From the tennessean.com
Does her religious or political affiliation affect her schedule, and thus yours?
From the forbes.com
There is no word yet on how this incident will affect his multiple endorsements.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Truly important issues that can affect your everyday lives are at stake Tuesday.
From the dailyherald.com
The rules will affect some 30 million lunches served in America each school day.
From the time.com
Mr. Mubarak acknowledged irregularities but said they didn't affect the outcome.
From the online.wsj.com
In Crohn's disease, the inflammation can affect any part of the digestive tract.
From the sciencedaily.com
The team also found that IL28B genotypes did not seem to affect median fibrosis.
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Gates isn't optimistic that restoring hearing can affect the course of dementia.
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- The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
- Have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
- Involve: connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
- Feign: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
- Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
- (affected) acted upon; influenced
- In linguistics, speaker affect is attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance. Affects such as sarcasm, contempt, dismissal, distaste, disgust, disbelief, exasperation, boredom, anger, joy, respect or disrespect, sympathy, pity, gratitude, wonder, admiration, humility, and awe are ...
- "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. ...
- 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" (APA 2006).
