Affect (redirected from affects)

affect /af·fect/ (af´ekt) the external expression of emotion attached to ideas or mental representations of objects.

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af·fect (-fkt)

v.

1. To have an influence on or affect a change in.

2. To attack or infect, as a disease.

n. (fkt)

Feeling or emotion, especially as manifested by facial expression or body language.

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Affect

An observed emotional expression or response. In some situations, anxiety would be considered an inappropriate affect.

Mentioned in: Anxiety

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affect (af´ekt),

n 1. the feeling of pleasantness or unpleasantness produced by a stimulus.
n 2. the emotional complex influencing a mental state.
n 3. the feeling experienced in connection with an emotion.

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affect Psychiatry 1. The observed emotional state of a Pt, which may be modified by such adjectives as blunted, dramatic, labile, sad 2. The subjective experience of emotion accompanying an idea or mental representation; affect is loosely synonymous with feeling, emotion, or mood. See Emotion, Flat affect, Inappropriate affect, Mood.