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ALL meanings of affecting

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  • adjective affecting If you describe something such as a story or a piece of music as affecting, you think it is good because it makes you feel a strong emotion, especially sadness or pity. 3
  • adjective affecting evoking feelings of pity, sympathy, or pathos; moving 3
  • adjective affecting emotionally touching; evoking pity, sympathy, etc. 3
  • noun affecting Touching the emotions; moving. 1
  • noun affecting 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.  The 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. 1
  • adjective affecting moving or exciting the feelings or emotions. 1
  • verb with object affecting to give the appearance of; pretend or feign: to affect knowledge of the situation. 1
  • verb with object affecting to assume artificially, pretentiously, or for effect: to affect a Southern accent. 1
  • verb with object affecting to use, wear, or adopt by preference; choose; prefer: the peculiar costume he affected. 1
  • verb with object affecting to assume the character or attitude of: to affect the freethinker. 1
  • verb with object affecting (of things) to tend toward habitually or naturally: a substance that affects colloidal form. 1
  • verb with object affecting (of animals and plants) to occupy or inhabit; live in or on: Lions affect Africa. Moss affects the northern slopes. 1
  • verb with object affecting Archaic. to have affection for; fancy. to aim at; aspire to. 1
  • noun affecting Psychology. feeling or emotion. 1
  • noun affecting Psychiatry. an expressed or observed emotional response: Restricted, flat, or blunted affect may be a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia. 1
  • noun affecting Obsolete. affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling. 1
  • verb without object affecting Obsolete. to incline, tend, or favor (usually followed by to): He affects to the old ways. 1
  • verb affecting present participle of affect. 0
  • adjective affecting Producing strong feelings and emotions. 0
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