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Effete vs Affected - What's the difference?

effete | affected |

As adjectives the difference between effete and affected

is that effete is (label) of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out while affected is influenced or changed by something.

As a noun affected is

someone , as by a disease.

As a verb affected is

(affect).

effete

English

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (label) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
  • *, II.4.1.v:
    • Nature is not effÅ“te , as he saith, or so lavish, to bestow all her gifts upon an age, but hath reserved some for posterity, to shew her power, that she is still the same, and not old or consumed.
  • Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
  • *
    • Amid the effete monarchies and princedoms of feudal Europe, morally and materially exhausted by the Thirty Years' War, the only hope of resistance to France lay in the little Republic of merchants, Holland.
  • Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
  • Effeminate.
  • *
    • a good-humored, effete boy brought up by maiden aunts.

    Derived terms

    * effetely * effeteness

    affected

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • influenced or changed by something
    • The affected compass was impossible to use, so we got lost.
  • simulated in order to impress
    • He spoke with an affected English accent.
  • Emotionally moved; touched.
  • (algebra, archaic) adfected
    • an affected equation
  • Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation

    • See also

    * affectation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone , as by a disease.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (affect)
    • The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.

    See also

    * effected