Definition of Affect

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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

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

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
W. Clement Stone

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Jim Rohn

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Thomas Paine

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton Friedman

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Jim Carrey

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
B. F. Skinner

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter

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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