Definitions for affecting

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affecting af·fect·ing

Spelling: [uh-fek-ting]

IPA: /əˈfɛk tɪŋ/

Affecting is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 300 anagrams from letters in affecting (aceffgint).

Definitions for affecting

noun

1. Psychology. feeling or emotion.
2. Psychiatry. an expressed or observed emotional response:
3. Obsolete. affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling.

adjective

1. moving or exciting the feelings or emotions.

verb (used with object)

1. to act on; produce an effect or change in:
2. to impress the mind or move the feelings of:
3. (of pain, disease, etc.) to attack or lay hold of.
4. to give the appearance of; pretend or feign:
5. to assume artificially, pretentiously, or for effect:
6. to use, wear, or adopt by preference; choose; prefer:
7. to assume the character or attitude of:
8. (of things) to tend toward habitually or naturally:
9. (of animals and plants) to occupy or inhabit; live in or on:
10. Archaic. to have affection for; fancy. to aim at; aspire to.

verb (used without object)

1. Obsolete. to incline, tend, or favor (usually followed by to):

Origin of affecting

First recorded in 1555-65; affect¹ + -ing²

Examples for affecting

Absorbed in the struggle with his conscience he had no least suspicion of how his words were affecting her.

Geisbert was also quick to mention how the methodology of the study could be affecting the current results.

Will you doubt, my dear, that my next trial will be the most affecting that I have yet had?

President Ronald Reagan took similar action, affecting about 100,000 families.

The conclusion of this affecting narrative brought them to the house.

Asthma is one of the most common diseases among children, affecting roughly one in every eleven kids.

Such was the language, and such the affecting simplicity of the innocent and uncultivated Imogen.

Neither, too, was as chilling, as affecting, or, at times, as much of a slog.

When asked about how his announcement from last November was affecting the race, Michaud seemed momentarily at a loss.

Thy heart is ingenuous and sincere; thy misfortune is poignant and affecting.