affect

Noun · Verb

Synonyms: impact bear upon bear on touch on touch involve regard feign sham pretend dissemble impress

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion

Verb (5)

have an effect upon“Will the new rules affect me?”Synonyms: impact bear upon bear on touch on touch
act physically on; have an effect upon“the medicine affects my heart rate”
connect closely and often incriminatingly“This new ruling affects your business”Synonyms: involve regard
make believe with the intent to deceive“He feigned that he was ill”“He shammed a headache”Synonyms: feign sham pretend dissemble
have an emotional or cognitive impact upon“This child impressed me as unusually mature”“This behavior struck me as odd”Synonyms: impress move strike

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Affect \Af*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Affected; p. pr. & vb. n. Affecting.] [L. affectus, p. p. of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make: cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See Fact.]

1.To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. [1913 Webster]

As might affect the earth with cold heat.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

The climate affected their health and spirits.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

2.To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. [1913 Webster]

A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles. [1913 Webster]

3.To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her.— Fuller.[1913 Webster]

4.To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. [1913 Webster]

For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.— Hazlitt.[1913 Webster]

5.To dispose or incline. [1913 Webster]

Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

6.To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

This proud man affects imperial ?way.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

7.To tend to by affinity or disposition. [1913 Webster]

The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.— Newton.[1913 Webster]

8.To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. [1913 Webster]

Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected.— Congreve.[1913 Webster]

Thou dost affect my manners.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

9.To assign; to appoint. [R.] [1913 Webster]

One of the domestics was affected to his special service.— Thackeray.[1913 Webster]

Syn: To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt; soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume. [1913 Webster]

Affect \Af*fect"\ ([a^]f*f[e^]kt"), n. [L. affectus.]

1.Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2.(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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]