AFFECT

vt to dispose or incline.

2. affect ·vt to tend to by affinity or disposition.

3. affect ·vt to act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

4. affect ·noun affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.

5. affect ·vt to love; to regard with affection.

6. affect ·vt to assign; to appoint.

7. affect ·vt to aim at; to aspire; to covet.

8. affect ·vt to influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.

9. affect ·vt to show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.

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

11. affect ·add. ·noun 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.