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affecting

[uh-fek-ting]

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adjective

moving or exciting the feelings or emotions.

Origin:
1555–65; affect¹ + -ing²

Related forms

af·fect·ing·ly, adverb

non·af·fect·ing, adjective

non·af·fect·ing·ly, adverb

un·af·fect·ing, adjective

Synonyms
touching, pathetic, piteous, stirring.

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What's affecting me, my clients and other small-business owners this week.

Bipolar disorder may be linked to mutations affecting circadian rhythm.

Skype's two-day outage is affecting more than its own user confidence levels.

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What's affecting me, my clients and other small-business owners this week.

Bipolar disorder may be linked to mutations affecting circadian rhythm.

Skype's two-day outage is affecting more than its own user confidence levels.

Hundreds of artists told us how the economy is affecting their lives and work.

But the students did seem keenly aware of how financial pressures were affecting their campuses and their own futures.

Today homelessness is affecting a growing share of families with children too.

The air has been going bad in many parks for decades, affecting views and endangering the health of visitors, plants and wildlife.

It has the ability to trigger memories and emotions unlike any other stimuli affecting our senses.

While the financial crisis is affecting everyone, the recession is hitting older people in a unique way.

The column should touch on your personal experiences but also relate to broader issues affecting academe.

The local press says that more tradition-minded locals are upset by the growing number of young women affecting a.

Test your awareness of the global trends affecting us all.

The second involves random events affecting select individuals within a group.

At this time, the problem is only affecting a small minority of users.

Those two places are chocked full of people discussing what they see as issues/problems affecting higher education today.

Blackouts, both planned and otherwise, are affecting daily lives in no small way.

Ask students to name some of the environmental issues affecting the oceans and list their ideas on the board.

The specific idea of dampness affecting arthritis symptoms seems an unlikely mechanism for a number of reasons.

Takeoffs and landings are performed at steep trajectories, which decrease the level of noise affecting the surrounding area.

They poison colleges and universities, affecting the morale of.

The experimenters concluded that it was not the changes in physical conditions that were affecting the workers' productivity.

Finally, they will determine factors which are affecting the decline of nomadic pastoral communities.

But research indicates that people do think they can access the factors affecting their choices.

They continue to use their chemicals in ways that are affecting humans and other species".

These may have failed, through the fraud and violence of others, in affecting this election.

But computers are affecting students' writing in ways unlike any other technology in the memory of their.

So this disincentive to save is affecting more and more workers.

They will think objectively and critically about real issues affecting the future of rivers.

It is purely a disease of the lungs, affecting the animal in no other organ.

Wal-Mart says the tags will help reduce theft and counterfeiting, the latter particularly affecting prescription medicines.

He has shown an edged tool that will cut a seasoned pine or hemlock knot without affecting the.

Lees did find evidence that the tough economy is affecting campaigns.

Directly, it will influence their position on matters affecting education and biological research.

Pneumonic plague, seen affecting both lung fields in this x-ray, is the only form of plague spread from.

So there is no mechanism in our facial muscles that is affecting our mood.

The results are barely recognizable as the original music, but strangely affecting.

Holmes' influential research on issues affecting the elderly have been internationally recognized.

Some professors say the university's focus on its community is affecting its ability.

Imported alien oysters often increase the incidence and severity of disease and parasite outbreaks affecting the whole reef.

When mutated, the gene primarily affects language without affecting other abilities.

Some bee populations have had severe declines, and this may be affecting food production.

Ethan has to make some decisions affecting his family and some of them are tough ones.

The study also found that college costs are affecting families' college choices.

Armies have to accept that consumerisation is affecting them too.

Neurological diseases affecting the hippocampus, as well.

Blood glucose is not alone in selectively affecting dentate gyrus performance.

While the industry certainly has its share of piracy problems, they aren't affecting box office receipts.

It's going to be huge relief for me when it does happen, since it's affecting more and more students every semester.

Until recently this was a chronic disease affecting only adults but now children are also getting it.

Votier is the lead author of a study on how reductions in discarded fish waste are affecting seabird populations.

Microbes did not seem to be affecting that stability too much, drawing down oxygen at a rate of one micromole per day.

So right now, the throttling issue is generally only affecting a small number of users.

It unfortunate to have politics affecting education stability.

Besides the usual business considerations, there seem to be two particular worries affecting the sale.

Scientists wonder whether vision problems from mercury poisoning may be affecting the birds' ability to catch fish.

But it pales in comparison to a failure scenario affecting the entire country.

Even this current round comes dangerously close to affecting the service's allure.

At the same time, the economic downturn could be affecting the decisions of students who still opt to study overseas.

Tariffs on foreign goods would be not only politically appealing but would also have the benefit of affecting the poor most.

It's even more affecting in the midst of a revolution, when there are no tourists at all.

There are other cases of genetic mutations affecting two diseases:.

It says this will extend the tyre's lifetime without affecting its rolling resistance or sacrificing its grip.

Earth's plate movements are an important factor affecting mammalian evolution.

It can't be a general problem that's affecting the mind as a whole.

Within an hour of a person falling asleep, slow waves will have covered his entire cortex, affecting every nerve cell in it.

Computer models of the system therefore suggested that another world was affecting the gas giant's orbit.

When held to the head it's capable of electrically affecting areas of the brain within a few centimeters of the surface.

These are big questions, affecting the nature of the state, sovereignty and democracy.

The land here is a discordant but oddly affecting mix of skeletal rock and rain forest.

Eventually shock waves form around the airplane, affecting the lift and drag.

Territorial squabbles between traffickers are now affecting city life.

There are no historical statistics that could prove global warming is affecting local sea currents.

True, the administration has rushed into force provisions affecting consumers directly, in an effort to win popular support.

Deforestation is a major problem affecting the health of our planet.

Some factors affecting strategy, such as big retailers' buying power, are well-known.

Whatever is affecting frogs might one day affect other animals-and people-as well.

It will consider how this is affecting plans to admit yet more new members.

In addition, changing sea-ice conditions may be affecting narwhal survival.

It is a deeply affecting film, with a forceful message.

Meet the people who investigate the cultures of the world and the social issues affecting them.

Immigration rules aren't the only factor affecting students' choice of country:.

Brooks added that he doesn't think global warming is affecting tornado formation.

The country's authoritarianism will also prove a limiting factor, affecting not only the humanities but the sciences as well.

Researchers do have some ideas about what could be affecting bee health.

Rather than the pace of company buy-backs driving the stockmarket, stockmarket conditions are affecting the pace of buy-backs.

Pneumonic plague, seen affecting both lung fields in this x-ray, is the only form of plague spread from person to person.

People need to see that climate change is already personally affecting millions of people and animals all over the world.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops.

to impress the mind or move the feelings of: The music affected him deeply.

(of pain, disease, etc.) to attack or lay hold of.

noun

Psychology. feeling or emotion.

Psychiatry. an expressed or observed emotional response: Restricted, flat, or blunted affect may be a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia.

Obsolete. affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin affectus acted upon, subjected to; mental or emotional state (past participle and action noun of afficere), equivalent to af- af- + fec- (combining form of facere to make, do) + -tus action noun suffix or -tus past participle suffix

Related forms

af·fect·a·ble, adjective

af·fect·a·bil·i·ty, noun

Synonyms
1. influence, sway; modify, alter. 2. touch, stir.

Usage note
Affect¹ and effect, each both noun and verb, share the sense of “influence,” and because of their similarity in pronunciation are sometimes confused in writing. As a verb affect¹ means “to act on” or “to move” (His words affected the crowd so deeply that many wept); affect² means “to pretend” or “to assume” (new students affecting a nonchalance they didn't feel). The verb effect means “to bring about, accomplish”: Her administration effected radical changes. EXPANDThe noun effect means “result, consequence”: the serious effects of the oil spill. The noun affect¹ pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, is a technical term in psychology and psychiatry. Affect² is not used as a noun

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verb (used with object)

to give the appearance of; pretend or feign: to affect knowledge of the situation.

to assume artificially, pretentiously, or for effect: to affect a Southern accent.

to use, wear, or adopt by preference; choose; prefer: the peculiar costume he affected.

to assume the character or attitude of: to affect the freethinker.

(of things) to tend toward habitually or naturally: a substance that affects colloidal form.

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(of animals and plants) to occupy or inhabit; live in or on: Lions affect Africa. Moss affects the northern slopes.

Archaic.

to have affection for; fancy.

to aim at; aspire to.

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verb (used without object)

Obsolete. to incline, tend, or favor (usually followed by to): He affects to the old ways.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French affecter < Latin affectāre to strive after, feign (frequentative of afficere to do to), equivalent to af- af- + fec- (see affect¹) + -tāre frequentative suffix

Related forms

af·fect·er, noun

Synonyms
1. See pretend.

Usage note
See affect¹.

Link To affecting

Collins

World English Dictionary

affecting (əˈfɛktɪŋ)

—*adj*
	evoking feelings of pity, sympathy, or pathos; moving

af'fectingly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

affect

"to make a pretense of," 1660s, earlier "to assume the character of (someone)" (1590s); originally in Eng. "to aim at, aspire to, make for" (late 15c.), from M.Fr. affecter (15c.), from L. affectare "to strive after, aim at," freq. of afficere (pp. affectus) "to do something to, act on" (see

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affect (n.)).

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

affect af·fect (ə-fěkt')
v. af·fect·ed, af·fect·ing, af·fects

To have an influence on or affect a change in.
To attack or infect, as a disease.

n. (āf'ěkt')

A feeling or emotion as distinguished from thought, or action.
A strong feeling with active consequences.

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