affect

1. 1.

   the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion

   Broaderfeeling

Other forms of affect

plural

affects·

past tense

affected·

present participle

affecting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about affect

What does affect mean?

affect means "have an effect upon". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in affect?

affect has 2 syllables: af-fect. The stress falls on "fect". In IPA it is /əˈfɛkt/.

What is another word for affect?

Close synonyms include impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is affect a common word?

affect is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with affect?

8 words rhyme with affect. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.