affect

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affect[1,noun] affect[2,verb] affect[3,transitive verb]

Main Entry: ¹af·fect
Pronunciation: 'a-"fekt
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin affectus, from afficere
1 obsolete : FEELING, AFFECTION
2 : the conscious subjective aspect of an emotion considered apart from bodily changes; also : a set of observable manifestations of a subjectively experienced emotion <patients...showed perfectly normal reactions and affects -- Oliver Sacks>
usage see EFFECT