Affect: The emotional tone a person expresses. A person's affect may be appropriate or inappropriate to the situation. One type of inappropriate affect is a flat affect or blunted affect, a common feature of schizophrenia.
verb (used with object) 1. to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops. 2. to impress the mind or move the feelings of: The music ...
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Definition of AFFECT. 1. obsolete: feeling, affection. 2: the conscious subjective aspect of an emotion considered apart from bodily changes; also: a set of ...
af·fect 1 (-f kt) tr.v. af·fect·ed, af·fect·ing, af·fects. 1. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
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