(transitive) To influence or alter. / (transitive) To move to emotion. / (transitive, pathology) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).

(psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.

An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. / An unusual mannerism.

Influenced or changed by something. / Simulated in order to impress. / Emotionally moved; touched. / (algebra, archaic) adfected. / Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation.

Someone affected, as by a disease.

simple past tense and past participle of affect

plural of affection

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affection

Producing or causing strong feelings and emotions.

present participle of affect