Affect

Etymology 1
From, from , from , the participle stem of , from +.

Verb

 * 1)  To influence or alter.
 * 2)  To move to emotion.
 * 3) * 1757,, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
 * A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.
 * 1)  Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
 * 2)  To dispose or incline.
 * 3)  To tend to by affinity or disposition.
 * The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.
 * 1)  To assign; to appoint.
 * One of the domestics was affected to his special service.
 * A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.
 * 1)  Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
 * 2)  To dispose or incline.
 * 3)  To tend to by affinity or disposition.
 * The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.
 * 1)  To assign; to appoint.
 * One of the domestics was affected to his special service.
 * The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.
 * 1)  To assign; to appoint.
 * One of the domestics was affected to his special service.
 * One of the domestics was affected to his special service.
 * One of the domestics was affected to his special service.

Usage notes
Affect and are sometimes confused because they are homophones in American English. Affect conveys influence over something that already exists, but effect indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities: The former indicates that major changes were made as a result of new policies, while the latter indicates that before new policies, major changes were in place, and that the new policies had some influence over these existing changes.
 * “...new policies have effected major changes in government.”
 * “...new policies have affected major changes in government.”

The verbal noun uses of affect are distinguished from the verbal noun uses of effect more clearly than the regular verb forms. An affect is something that acts or acted upon something else. However, an effect is the result of an action (by something else).

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Asturian: afeutar
 * Belarusian: уплываць
 * Bulgarian:, въздействам
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 影響, 影响
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: nasya
 * Croatian: utjecati
 * Czech:
 * Danish: påvirke
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: ávirka
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: afectar


 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:, , , , hatással van
 * Interlingue: afecter
 * Italian:, ,
 * Maori: kawekawe
 * Norwegian: influere, gå utover
 * Bokmål: påvirke
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Scots: affek
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tocharian B: yām-
 * Ukrainian: впливати, вплинути


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish: berøre,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , , hatással van


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: affek
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: postihnout
 * Danish: påvirke,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: ,


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,


 * Ido:

Etymology 2
From, from , , and their source, , frequentative of (see Etymology 1, above).

Verb

 * 1)  To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.
 * 2) * a. 1729,, A Hue and Cry After Fair Amoret
 * Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.
 * 1)  To aim for, to try to obtain.
 * 2)  To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
 * 3) * c. 1589,, , Act III, Scene 1,
 * There is a Lady in Verona heere
 * Whom I affect: but she is nice, and coy,
 * And naught esteemes my aged eloquence.
 * 1) * 1596,, The Faerie Queene, VI.10:
 * From that day forth she gan to him affect, / And daily more her favour to augment
 * 1) * 1655,, The Church-History of Britain, London: John Williams, Book 5, p. 173,
 * As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected, then affected; rather honoured, then loved her.
 * 1) * 1663,, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1:
 * But when he pleased to show 't, his speech / In loftiness of sound was rich; / A Babylonish dialect, / Which learned pedants much affect.
 * 1)  To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
 * 2) * 1603,, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.9:
 * Amongst humane conditions this one is very common, that we are rather pleased with strange things then with our owne; we love changes, affect alterations, and like innovations.
 * 1) * c. 1607,, , Act I, Scene 2,
 * Go, let him have a table by himself, for he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for’t, indeed.
 * 1) * 1825,, “On the Conduct of life: or Advice to a schoolboy” in Table-Talk Volume II, Paris: A. & W. Galignani, p. 284,
 * Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.
 * Amongst humane conditions this one is very common, that we are rather pleased with strange things then with our owne; we love changes, affect alterations, and like innovations.
 * 1) * c. 1607,, , Act I, Scene 2,
 * Go, let him have a table by himself, for he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for’t, indeed.
 * 1) * 1825,, “On the Conduct of life: or Advice to a schoolboy” in Table-Talk Volume II, Paris: A. & W. Galignani, p. 284,
 * Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.

Translations

 * Finnish:


 * Russian:, ,


 * Bulgarian: преструвам се,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,


 * Interlingue: afectar
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology 3
From, from , , from

Noun

 * 1)  One's mood or inclination; mental state.
 * 2)  A desire, an appetite.
 * 3)  A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
 * 4) * 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 62:
 * if we are afraid of robbers in a dream, the robbers are certainly imaginary, but the fear is real. This draws our attention to the fact that the development of affects in dreams is not amenable to the judgement we make of the rest of the dream-content [...].
 * 1) * 2004, Jeffrey Greenberg & Thomas A Pyszczynski, Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology, p. 407:
 * A third study demonstrated that the effects of self-affirmation on self-regulated performance were not due to positive affect.

Usage notes
Affect and can both be used as nouns or verbs, but when used as a noun the word affect is limited to the above psychology uses and the definitions for effect are much more common. See also the usage notes as a verb above.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: afekcio
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: aфект,
 * Slovene: afekt


 * Lithuanian:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  ; emotion

Verb

 * 1) to
 * 2)  to burden property with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction

Noun

 * , mood