What's the difference between affect and resentiment?

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.

Resentiment


Definition:

  • (n.) Resentment.

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