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af·fect·ing

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–adjective

moving or exciting the feelings or emotions.

[Origin: 1555–65; affect¹ + -ing²

]

—Related forms

af·fect·ing·ly, adverb

—Synonyms touching, pathetic, piteous, stirring.

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af·fect¹ Audio Help (ə-fěkt') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. af·fect·ed, af·fect·ing, af·fects

To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.

n. (āf'ěkt')

Feeling or emotion, especially as manifested by facial expression or body language: "The soldiers seen on television had been carefully chosen for blandness of affect" (Norman Mailer).
Obsolete A disposition, feeling, or tendency.

[Middle English affecten, from Latin afficere, affect-, to do to, act on : ad-, ad- + facere, to do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

Synonyms: These verbs mean to produce a mental or emotional effect. To affect is to act upon a person's emotions: Adverse criticism of the book didn't affect the author.
Influence implies some control over the thinking, actions, and emotions of another: "Humanity is profoundly influenced by what you do" (Pope John Paul II).
To impress is to produce a marked, often enduring effect: "The Tibetan landscape particularly impressed him" (Doris Kerns Quinn).
Touch usually means to arouse a tender response: "The tributes [to the two deceased musicians] were fitting and touching" (Daniel Cariaga).
Move suggests a profound emotional effect: The account of her experiences moved us to tears.
Strike implies keenness or force of mental response: I was struck by the sudden change in his appearance.

Usage Note: Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of "to influence" (how smoking affects health). Effect means "to bring about or execute": layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about.

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af·fect² Audio Help (ə-fěkt') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. af·fect·ed, af·fect·ing, af·fects

To put on a false show of; simulate: affected a British accent.
1. To have or show a liking for: affects dramatic clothes.
2. Archaic To fancy; love.
To tend to by nature; tend to assume: a substance that affects crystalline form.
To imitate; copy: "Spenser, in affecting the ancients, writ no language" (Ben Jonson).

[Middle English affecten, from Latin affectāre, to strive after, frequentative of afficere, affect-, to affect, influence; see affect¹.]

af·fect'er n.

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af·fect·ing Audio Help (ə-fěk'tĭng) Pronunciation Key
adj. Inspiring or capable of inspiring strong emotion; moving. See Synonyms at moving.

[From affect¹.]

af·fect'ing·ly adv.

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affecting
adjective
arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"

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Af*fect"\ ([a^]f*f[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Affected; p. pr. & vb. n. Affecting.] [L. affectus, p. p. of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make: cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See Fact.]

1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

As might affect the earth with cold heat. --Milton.

The climate affected their health and spirits. --Macaulay.

2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.

A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles. --Burke.

3. To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.]

As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. --Fuller.

4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.

For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed. --Shak.

Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. --Hazlitt.

5. To dispose or incline.

Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. --Milton.

6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.]

This proud man affects imperial ?way. --Dryden.

7. To tend to by affinity or disposition.

The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. --Newton.

8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.

Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. --Congreve.

Thou dost affect my manners. --Shak.

9. To assign; to appoint. [R.]

One of the domestics was affected to his special service. --Thackeray.

Syn: To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt; soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume.

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