(n.) The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
(n.) An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies.
(n.) Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency.
(n.) A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children.
(n.) Prejudice; bias.
(n.) Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection.
(n.) The lively representation of any emotion.
(n.) Affectation.
(n.) Passion; violent emotion.
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.
Infatuation
Definition:
(n.) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rome in The Great Beauty Released 2013, directed by Paolo Sorrentino Facebook Twitter Pinterest I can’t think of any city so drenched with infatuated love, and yet also a kind of disillusion and disenchantment, as the Rome of Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty .
(2) Beyond court 73 Twitter was abuzz with idle speculation that one of the women lawyers present was clearly infatuated with Grant, effortlessly glamorous and with his spectacles off.
(3) But so far, I perceive a threatening mix of arrogance, self-infatuation and condescension.” It is tempting to see Podemos as a well-planned operation by a group of talented academics, following a populist script written by a line of radical thinkers, but that would be too simple.
(4) Once I got back to the UK, I was infatuated with finding similar adventures here.
(5) Returning to London in my 40s from a long spell abroad brought the shock of London house prices but also an infatuation with Brighton with its sea views, eccentric shops and green surrounding hills.
(6) "US fans of The Office could rally for this one," it admitted, "although its exuberant, boundless cynicism will test the demand for political satire in an Obama-infatuated America."
(7) Sure: it's got daddy issues, it's dominated by male characters, but it allows Lea Thompson as Lorraine to all but steal the show, hamming it up both as a chain-smoking, vodka-sinking washout and an infatuated teen (plus, in II, a surgically enhanced doormat, and, in III, an oirish farmer's wife).
(8) Dr Bill Knocke, head of the civil engineering faculty whose staff and students were among the dead, said he understood that Cho had gone on Monday morning to the dormitory of a female student, Emily Hilscher, 19, who was not his girlfriend but with whom he may have been infatuated.
(9) We failed to notice that our runaway infatuation with the sleek toys produced by the likes of Apple and Samsung – allied to our apparently insatiable appetite for Facebook, Google and other companies that provide us with "free" services in exchange for the intimate details of our daily lives – might well turn out to be as powerful a narcotic as soma was for the inhabitants of Brave New World.
(10) The concept of pathological infatuation or what this author has termed the Blue Angel syndrome is presented.
(11) Born in Swansea, he carved out a career on BBC Radio Wales, before a move to television in the form of Marion and Geoff, a mock-umentary series in which he played a divorced taxi driver still infatuated with his ex-wife; Coogan was the associate producer.
(12) An infatuation that, naturally, died long before Erasure sang about "l'amour" and just as the first crop of Generation Y-ers were beginning school.
(13) So let's remove those rose-tinted ski goggles and take a closer look at the objects of our infatuation … Protesters clash with police at an asylum centre near Copenhagen in 2008.
(14) Maps to The Stars by David Cronenberg is a competition movie avowedly about that most superficially attractive but difficult and elusive subject: celebrity and our current infatuation with it.
(15) The pair of them were so instantly infatuated with each other's possibilities that on their second meeting they planned the Smiths in detail.
(16) And embarrassing as it may be for those of us infatuated with the latest technology to admit, it is with the difficult case especially that old-fashioned technology so often must be depended upon.
(17) Now he's at it again, with another part from which Harry Potter would run a mile: in Kill Your Darlings , he plays gay beat poet Allen Ginsberg , sexually infatuated with the dangerous Lucien Carr .
(18) Joyce suspected her husband was having an affair with Deng, with whom he was reportedly infatuated.
(19) "He's got an earring, he wears leather and you're totally infatuated with him.
(20) Why am I – why is everyone else she knew – so infatuated with Yusor?