affect
verb
[ əˈfɛkt ]
• have an effect on; make a difference to.
• "the dampness began to affect my health"
Similar:
influence,
exert influence on,
have an effect on,
act on,
work on,
condition,
touch,
have an impact on,
impact on,
take hold of,
attack,
infect,
strike,
strike at,
hit,
change,
alter,
modify,
transform,
form,
shape,
control,
govern,
determine,
decide,
guide,
sway,
bias,
Opposite:
be unaffected,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘attack as a disease’): from French affecter or Latin affect- ‘influenced, affected’, from the verb afficere (see affect2).
affect
verb
• pretend to have or feel (something).
• "as usual I affected a supreme unconcern"
Similar:
pretend,
feign,
fake,
counterfeit,
sham,
simulate,
fabricate,
give the appearance of,
make a show of,
make a pretence of,
play at,
go through the motions of,
put on,
make like,
Origin:
late Middle English: from French affecter or Latin affectare ‘aim at’, frequentative of afficere ‘work on, influence’, from ad- ‘at, to’ + facere ‘do’. The original sense was ‘like, love’, hence ‘(like to) use, assume, etc.’.
affect
noun
• emotion or desire as influencing behaviour.
Origin:
late 19th century: coined in German from Latin affectus ‘disposition’, from afficere ‘to influence’ (see affect2).
