What's the difference between affect and feeling?

Affect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
  • (v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
  • (v. t.) To love; to regard with affection.
  • (v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
  • (v. t.) To dispose or incline.
  • (v. t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
  • (v. t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
  • (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
  • (v. t.) To assign; to appoint.
  • (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The urinary excretion of PGF2 alpha was not affected by atenolol.
  • (2) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
  • (3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (4) alpha 1-Adrenergic agonists, phenylephrine and norfenefrine, did not affect the synthesis.
  • (5) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
  • (6) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (7) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (8) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (9) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
  • (10) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
  • (11) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
  • (12) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
  • (13) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
  • (14) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
  • (15) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
  • (16) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
  • (17) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
  • (18) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
  • (19) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
  • (20) The pH gradient measured with dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione and acetylsalicylic acid was very small in both bacteria at a high pH above 8, and was not affected significantly by the addition of CCCP.

Feeling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feel
  • (a.) Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
  • (a.) Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
  • (n.) The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
  • (n.) An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.
  • (n.) The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.
  • (n.) Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.
  • (n.) That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (2) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (3) All the patients told about a comfortable feeling of warmth after each treatment lasting for one two days.
  • (4) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
  • (5) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (6) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (7) But at the same time I didn't feel like, 'Aw, I'm home!'
  • (8) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
  • (9) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
  • (10) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
  • (11) The role of the therapist's own depressive feelings when working with this type of families is considered.
  • (12) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (13) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
  • (14) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
  • (15) These included: 1) association of infectious processes with other laboratory results; 2) a feeling of integration with the patient and health care team; and 3) the introduction of medical terminology.
  • (16) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
  • (17) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
  • (18) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
  • (19) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
  • (20) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.