What is the difference between the words 'Affect' and 'Effect'?

Question

no need to tell me they are different words

Answer 1

There are five distinct words here. When “affect” is accented on the final syllable (a-FECT), it is usually a verb meaning “have an influence on”: “The million-dollar donation from the industrialist did not affect my vote against the Clean Air Act.”
Occasionally a pretentious person is said to affect an artificial air of sophistication. Speaking with a borrowed French accent or ostentatiously wearing a large diamond ear stud might be an affectation. In this sort of context, “affect” means “to make a display of or deliberately cultivate.”
Another unusual meaning is indicated when the word is accented on the first syllable (AFF-ect), meaning “emotion.” In this case the word is used mostly by psychiatrists and social scientists— people who normally know how to spell it.
The real problem arises when people confuse the first spelling with the second: “effect.” This too can be two different words. The more common one is a noun: “When I left the stove on, the effect was that the house filled with smoke.” When you affect a situation, you have an effect on it.
The less common is a verb meaning “to create”: “I’m trying to effect a change in the way we purchase widgets.” No wonder people are confused. Note especially that the proper expression is not “take affect” but “take effect”—become effective. Hey, nobody ever said English was logical: just memorize it and get on with your life.
The stuff in your purse? Your personal effects.

Answer 2

The two words are sometimes mistakenly interchanged for one another, but their definitions are quite different. Usage is made even more complicated by the fact that the each word has a different meaning as a noun and as verb.

"Effect" as a NOUN basically means an outcome or end result.
Example: What is the EFFECT of the sun's mass on the orbit of the planets?

"Effect" as a VERB means to establish or bring into existence.
Example: We need to educate people about cultural diversity in order to EFFECT change.

"Affect"(stress is on the first syllable) as a NOUN refers to a person's emotional response usually in terms of facial or bodily expressions.
Example: Being in a catatonic state, the patient had a very flat AFFECT.

"Affect" as a VERB means to have influence over something.
Example: Good parents AFFECT the lives of their children in significant ways, including providing emotional and financial support.

Answer 3

AFFECT


af·fect1 /v. əˈfɛkt; n. ˈæfɛkt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[v. uh-fekt; n. af-ekt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object) 1. to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops.
2. to impress the mind or move the feelings of: The music affected him deeply.
3. (of pain, disease, etc.) to attack or lay hold of.
–noun 4. Psychology. feeling or emotion.
5. Psychiatry. an expressed or observed emotional response: Restricted, flat, or blunted affect may be a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia.
6. Obsolete. affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling.


EFFECT
1. something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
2. power to produce results; efficacy; force; validity; influence: His protest had no effect.
3. the state of being effective or operative; operation or execution; accomplishment or fulfillment: to bring a plan into effect.
4. a mental or emotional impression produced, as by a painting or a speech.
5. meaning or sense; purpose or intention: She disapproved of the proposal and wrote to that effect.
6. the making of a desired impression: We had the feeling that the big, expensive car was only for effect.
7. an illusory phenomenon: a three-dimensional effect.
8. a real phenomenon (usually named for its discoverer): the Doppler effect.
9. special effects.
–verb (used with object) 10. to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen: The new machines finally effected the transition to computerized accounting last spring.
—Idioms11. in effect, a. for practical purposes; virtually: His silence was in effect a confirmation of the rumor.
b. essentially; basically.
c. operating or functioning; in force: The plan is now in effect.

12. take effect, a. to go into operation; begin to function.
b. to produce a result: The prescribed medicine failed to take effect.

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Answer 4

In general use, affect is only used as a verb, whereas effect is commonly used as a noun and only in formal contexts as a verb. What causes confusion is that they have very similar pronunciations and closely related meanings. If one thing affects [acts upon] another, it has an effect on it [causes it to change]. Notice also that you can affect [cause a change in] people as well as things, but you can only effect [bring about] things such as changes: The election has affected our entire society, for it has effected major changes in the government.The bad weather has a bad effect [not affect] on him.

Answer 5

The effect is the result of an affect.

Answer 6

Effect is a noun, meaning a result, impression produced etc.

E.g. 'the performance had an enormous effect on Maria'

And affect is the verb.

E.g. 'the performance affected Maria enormously'.

Answer 7

effect (remember cause and effect)
The result or outcome of a cause.
The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape.

affect (noun)External display of emotion or mood.
His affect was extreme misery.
or (verb) To influence or alter.
That cheesecake I ate affected my huge hips.

“Affect” conveys the influence over something that already exists, but “effect” indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities.
So, if I was a model and that cheesecake gave me huge hips, that is an effect, but if I already had big hips and it increased them, it is affect.

Normally, I see affect used for as a psychological term.

Answer 8

In as short as possible, affect indicates and action that produces an effect, while effect indicates the result.

Cold weather affected the crops.

Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.

Answer 9

An effect can affect

Answer 10

I think of effect as more of a noun. "The effect of the music was wonderful." I think of affect as a verb. The music will affect the movie.