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Definition of Affect
Affect

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.

To love; to regard with affection.

To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.

To dispose or incline.

To aim at; to aspire; to covet.

To tend to by affinity or disposition.

To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.

To assign; to appoint.

Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.

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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Affect Quotations

Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli

You affect the world by what you browse.
Tim Berners-Lee

I don't think events in your life affect your music.
Gordon Getty

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
James E. Jones

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau

Affect Translations

affect in Dutch is aandoen, aangrijpen
affect in French is affectez, influer, concernent, affectons
affect in Latin is inflecto, moveo moti motum, contineo
affect in Portuguese is afete
affect in Spanish is afectar, concernir

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