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affect🔊

To influence or alter.

To move to emotion.

📑 Synonyms: move touch

(pathology) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).

📑 Synonyms: attack harm infect

(archaic) To dispose or incline.

(archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.

(archaic) To assign; to appoint.

(Scots law) To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction.

To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.

📑 Synonyms: fake simulate feign

To aim for, to try to obtain.

(rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.

(obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.

(psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.

(obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.

(obsolete) A desire, an appetite.