affect

v. influence; move someone (emotionally); attack (of a disease); act as if, pretend; have a certain disposition towards; have an affinity for

The term Affect generally suggests an emotion. It is used in various ways in various contexts:Affect (philosophy).Affect (psychology), referring to feeling or emotion.Affect display (psychology) refers to apparent signs of emotion, such as facial expression, vocalization, and postureAffective science, the scientific study of emotion.Any of several terms in abnormal psychology, including.Blunted affect or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity.Labile affect, the unstable display of emotion.Affective computing, an area of research in computer science aiming to simulate emotional processes.Literary affects, the emotional experience generated in a reader by a text, such as catharsis kairosis and kenosis.Affekt (the German term, which is often used in this context) in musical and other aesthetic theory. (The article currently redirects to Doctrine of the affections.)Doctrine of the affections, an important theory in musical aesthetics.
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n. affect, influence

n. affect, influence; have a certain disposition towards

(v. t.)
To tend to by affinity or disposition.
  

(v. t.)
To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
  

(v. t.)
To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
  

(v. t.)
To love; to regard with affection.
  

(v. t.)
To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
  

(v. t.)
To dispose or incline.
  

(v. t.)
To assign; to appoint.
  

(v. t.)
To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
  

(v. t.)
To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
  

(n.)
Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.