Meaning Affect
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The emotional tone a person expresses. A person's affect may be appropriate or inappropriate to the situation. One type of inappropriate affect is a flat affect or blunted affect, a common feature of schizophrenia.
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have an influence upon The central bank will start distributing low-interest loans in early March to individuals and small- and medium-sized companies affected by the flooding. — BusinessWeek (Feb 19, [..]
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1[often passive] affect somebody/something to produce a change in someone or something How will these changes affect us? Your opinion will not affect my decision. The south of the country was worst af [..]
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"to make an impression on," 1630s; earlier "to attack" (c. 1600), "act upon, infect" (early 15c.), from affect (n.). Related: Affected; affecting.
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late 14c., "mental state," from Latin noun use of affectus "furnished, supplied, endowed," figuratively "disposed, constituted, inclined," past participle of afficere &qu [..]
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"to make a pretense of," 1660s, earlier "to assume the character of (someone)," 1590s; originally in English "to aim at, aspire to, desire" (early 15c.), from Middle Fren [..]
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1. (consumer behavior definition) The feelings a person has toward an attitude object such as a brand, advertisement, salesperson, etc. Affect is growing in importance in attempts to understand and predict consumer behavior. (2). (consumer behavior definition) The affective responses include states such as emotions, specific feelings, and moods tha [..]
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to produce a change.
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To make happen, or to cause an effect or change to occur, or has or will result. Typically used to identify secondary impacts as a result of a primary change. [D02364]
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the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?" involve: connect closely and often incriminatingly; "T [..]
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to do something that causes a change
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v. To act upon
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  to love.
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Definition verb
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the act of feeling a sentiment spanning from distress to extreme joy, from the most minor to the very involved senses involved with feeling, and also varying from common to highly diseased or neurotic [..]
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Affect is a fairly general term for feelings, emotions, or moods. To say someone has negative affect means that they have feelings, emotions, or moods that are negative in nature. I guess you can thin [..]
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to be fond of or pleased with.
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influence; make a change on.
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(v) have an effect upon(v) act physically on; have an effect upon(v) make believe with the intent to deceive(v) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon(n) the conscious subjective aspect of feeling [..]
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The observable emotional condition of an individual at any given time. [Click Here to Return to List]
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To love, to desire. (Latin, affecto.)
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The emotional tone characteristic of each person’s presentation. Affect is depressed in dysthymia, elevated in elation. Affect may be described as “flat”, “blunted”, or “inappropriate” to the situatio [..]
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The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of Instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which [..]
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The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which [..]
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to love
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The observed expression or experience of subjective feeling states including emotions, feelings and moods
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n. "desire," s.v. affect sb. OED. KEY: affect@n
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n 1 affectis 1
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In the fields of Psychology and Psychiatry, affect is a term used in relation to feelings/emotions to describe an expressed or observed emotional response displayed to others through facial expression [..]
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Love
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The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves. (12 Dec 1998)
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