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"Affect" Definition

noun

Feeling or emotion, especially as manifested by facial expression or body language: "The soldiers seen on television had been carefully chosen for blandness of affect” ( Norman Mailer).
Obsolete A disposition, feeling, or tendency.
The conscious aspect of an emotion considered apart from bodily changes.
A set of observable of a subjectively experienced emotion .

verb-transitive

Archaic To fancy; love.
To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.
To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
To have or show a liking for: affects dramatic clothes.

verb

To aim at.
To have for.
To be given to .
To make a display of liking or using .
To put on a of .

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