1. Have an effect upon
   "Will the new rules affect me?";
   - impact, bear upon, bear on
    
2. Act physically on; have an effect upon
   "the medicine affects my heart rate"
    
3. Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
   "This child affected me as unusually mature";
   - impress, move, strike
    
4. Connect closely and often incriminatingly
   "This new ruling affects your business";
   - involve, regard
    
5. Make believe with the intent to deceive
   "She affected ignorance of the scandal";
   - feign, sham, pretend, dissemble

1. The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
   "His affect remained flat throughout the interview"

Sounds like: effect

Derived forms: affects, affected, affecting

Type of: alter, bear on, belie, change, concern, feeling, have to do with, misrepresent, modify, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on

Encyclopedia: Affect