What's the difference between disaffected and unaffected?

Disaffected


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Disaffect
  • (a.) Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (2) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
  • (3) Why would disaffected Liberals be inclined to give their protest votes to a Labour party that has abused them at every turn since last May?
  • (4) Feelings of guilt were related significantly to disaffected patterns such as dogmatism (p less than .001), hostility (p less than .001), and aggression (p less than .05), which suggests a turning inward of feelings of anger and disappointment in addition to their outward expression.
  • (5) With the coming of the meritocracy, the now leaderless masses were partially disfranchised; as time has gone by, more and more of them have been disengaged, and disaffected to the extent of not even bothering to vote.
  • (6) That's different to the protests we've seen in the Middle Eastern countries, where you've had economic dislocation for a prolonged period of time, and a lack of economic alternatives for disaffected youth."
  • (7) And yet London sometimes feels absolutely ready for an angry new movement that can take advantage of the disaffection and dispossession growing inside a city where property has become an asset class for international speculation, with even the pokiest flat well beyond the means of anyone earning the average wage.
  • (8) It exacerbates an environment of disaffection and disempowerment and does nothing but isolate the very community that best understands these challenges.” Race relations have reached a low ebb following the release of the government’s anti-terrorism laws, which many Muslims say have dredged up Islamophobia in the community by equating terrorism with Islam.
  • (9) After his meeting with De Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the minister's outbursts, in which he called the disaffected young men on estates 'louts'.
  • (10) As Isis’s international notoriety grows, so too may its unifying appeal to the fanatics and fundamentalists, the disaffected and the dispossessed, and the merely criminal of the Sunni Muslim world.
  • (11) I don’t think my voice is heard.’ I feel that disaffection.” Last year, Lone co-wrote a fascinating report on disaffection among the white working class for Open Society Foundations and yet it still seemed surprising when she decided to contest a 98% “white seat” rather than one closer to home in multicultural Manchester.
  • (12) This looks like a deluded bolt-on to the “35% strategy” whereby Miliband will supposedly sweep into Downing Street thanks to Labour’s core vote and disaffected former Lib Dem supporters; it only compounds the sense that people at the top of the Labour party are lost in the psephological woods.
  • (13) "I'm not surprised at people getting disaffected with society," said one senior commander.
  • (14) In actuality, Isis is the canniest of all traders in the flourishing international economy of disaffection: the most resourceful among all those who offer the security of collective identity to isolated and fearful individuals.
  • (15) With discontent growing, the Kremlin had attempted to build a loyal liberal opposition party that would bring in the disaffected middle class and boost Kremlin support inside parliament in the event of disastrous results for United Russia.
  • (16) There is an urgent need for institutional designs and procedures that promote legality, accountability and transparency in government if the population's disaffection is to be overcome and corruption reduced.
  • (17) But he rejected the “35% strategy” – that Labour could secure victory with a relatively small share of the total vote by targeting core voters and disaffected Liberal Democrat supporters.
  • (18) Like the kind of heedless, scatter-gun approach pursued by America and Britain that transformed al-Qaida from a small band of fairly well-educated violent extremists into a youthful social movement that appeals to many thousands of disaffected Muslim immigrants in the western diaspora, and many more millions who are economically and politically frustrated back home.
  • (19) The current uprising is spread far more widely across the country and includes a broad spectrum of disaffected citizens.
  • (20) In his address, Francis said he was grateful for efforts made by Anglicans to understand why his predecessor, Benedict XVI, had introduced a structure – the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham – to allow disaffected members of the C of E to convert.

Unaffected


Definition:

  • (a.) Not affected or moved; destitute of affection or emotion; uninfluenced.
  • (a.) Free from affectation; plain; simple; natural; real; sincere; genuine; as, unaffected sorrow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During recovery glucose uptake was reduced and citrate release was unaffected.
  • (2) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
  • (3) The half-life was very variable between subjects [2-8 hours], but less variable within subjects and it was unaffected by the formulation.
  • (4) Serum pepsinogen 1, serum gastrin, ABO blood groups, secretor status of ABH blood group substances and behavioral factors were studied in 15 patients with duodenal ulcer and 61 their relatives affected and unaffected to duodenal ulcer.
  • (5) Other DNase I hypersensitive sites located adjacent to the S14 cap site at -65 to -265 base pairs (Hss-1) or upstream at -1.3 kb (Hss-2), -2.1 kb (Hss-3'), -5.3 kb (Hss-4), and -6.2 kb (Hss-5) remained unaffected by changes in S14 gene transcription.
  • (6) These tumors may nonetheless be etiologically related as indicated by the pattern of laboratory abnormalities, especially immunologic, in affected as well as unaffected members.
  • (7) Peptidoglycan synthesis is unaffected by the mutations affecting the core glycosyltransferases.
  • (8) Recovery after EEDQ administration showed that both receptor production rate and degradation rate constants of anterior pituitary D2 and striatal D1 receptors were slowed after chronic estradiol treatment, whereas recovery rates for striatal D2 dopamine receptors were unaffected.
  • (9) The repriming of K-contractures was more affected by changes in [Ca]0 in normal soleus than in normal extensor digitorum longus and this difference was unaffected by dystrophy.
  • (10) Photolysis of the photosystem I particles induces a progressive depletion of phylloquinone, however, photochemistry as assayed at room temperature by the photooxidation of P-700 is unaffected.
  • (11) Adenylate cyclase activation by GTP non-hydrolyzable analogues was greatly decreased in immune, as compared to preimmune, antibody-treated membranes, whereas the enzyme basal activity was unaffected by both types of antibodies.
  • (12) F-wave latency was consistently increased in the affected hands of the patients, compared with results from the unaffected and control hands.
  • (13) Results of these studies indicated that the basic protein band of freshly obtained normal human white matter was unaffected by incubation at 23 degrees C for as long as 18 hours.
  • (14) The translocation of nascent PtdSer to the mitochondria was unaffected by 45-fold dilution of the standard reaction thus indicating that the translocation intermediate was unlikely to be a freely diffusible complex.
  • (15) The rise of the membrane resistance during cooling was unaffected.
  • (16) Pilot studies had shown that the activity of rT3 5'MDH is markedly (greater than or equal to 85%) inhibited in the presence of 2 M NaCl, while the rT3 5'MDL is essentially unaffected, and both low and high Km T4 5'MD are minimally (approximately 20%) inhibited.
  • (17) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
  • (18) The morphological process of spermatogenesis is largely unaffected and motile sperm are produced, but meiocyte aneuploidy is common.
  • (19) The amplitude was 15-70% as large as the tonic component of the K-contracture induced by 40 mM K. Theophylline (10 mM), 0.1 mM papaverine and 1 microM isoprenaline nearly abolished, and 1 mM cAMP partly depressed the tonic contraction of K-contracture, whereas the tonic contraction induced by the test solution was unaffected.
  • (20) Their presence in the serum in unaffected by dialysis.

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