meaning of affect7
1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
3. To love; to regard with affection.
4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
5. To dispose or incline.
6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
7. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
9. To assign; to appoint.
10. Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
11. the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
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