affect¹ /ə-fektˈ/

1. To act upon
2. To infect or attack as or like a disease
3. To influence
4. To move the feelings of
5. (in passive only) to assign or allot

1. The emotion that lies behind action (psychology)
2. Pleasantness or unpleasantness of, or complex of ideas involved in, an emotional state (psychology)
3. Disposition of body or mind (obsolete)
4. Affection or love (obsolete)

affectˈed adjective

affectˈing adjective

Having power to move the emotions

affectˈingly adverb

affectˈive adjective

Of, arising from or influencing emotion

affectˈively adverb

affectivity /af-ek-tivˈi-ti/ noun

affectˈless adjective

affectˈlessness noun

affective disorders plural noun (psychology)

A group of disorders whose primary characteristic is a disturbance of mood

affect² /ə-fektˈ/

1. To make a show of preferring
2. To do, wear or inhabit by preference
3. To assume
4. To assume the character of
5. To make a show or pretence of
6. To aim at or aspire to (obsolete)
7. To have a liking for (archaic)

To incline or tend

affectāˈtion /af-ik-/ noun

1. Assumption of or striving after an appearance of what is not natural or real
2. Pretence

affectˈed adjective

1. Full of affectation
2. Feigned

affectˈedly adverb

affectˈedness noun

affectˈer noun

• fulgorous
• fulgors
• fulgour
• fulgours
• fulgural
• fulgurant
• fulgurate
• fulgurated
• fulgurates
• fulgurating
• fulguration
• fulgurations
• fulgurite
• fulgurites
• fulgurous
• fulham
• fulhams
• fuliginosities
• fuliginosity
• fuliginous
• fuliginously
• full
• full-acorned
• fullage
• full-aged