AFFECT
\ɐfˈɛkt], \ɐfˈɛkt], \ɐ_f_ˈɛ_k_t]\
Definitions of AFFECT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
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To love; to regard with affection.
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To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
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To dispose or incline.
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To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
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To tend to by affinity or disposition.
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To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
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To love; to regard with affection.
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To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
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To dispose or incline.
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To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
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To tend to by affinity or disposition.
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To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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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.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To act upon: to produce a change upon: to move the feelings.
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To strive after: to make a show or pretence of: to love: (B.) to pay court to.
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To be inclined to: to prefer. (Obs.).
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To pretend; counterfeit.
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To act upon; influence; move emotionally.
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To be fond of; love; haunt; frequent.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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