Love vs Affect - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between love and affect

is that love is money while affect is (obsolete) one's mood or inclination; mental state.

As a verb affect is

to influence or alter or affect can be (obsolete|transitive) to aim for, to try to obtain.

love

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like. The verb is from (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(label) Strong affection.

# An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person.

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# A deep or abiding liking for something.

# A profound and caring attraction towards someone.

#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.

(countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

Open the temple gates unto my love .

(colloquial)

(euphemistic) A sexual desire; sexual activity.

*1986, Ben Elton & al., ":

*:—What think you, my lord, of... love ?

*:—You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.

(obsolete) A thin silk material.

* 1664 , (Robert Boyle), Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours,

Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love -Hood.

A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba .

Synonyms

* (sense) baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird * (term of address) mate, lover. darling, sweety

Antonyms

* (strong affection) hate, hatred, angst; malice, spite * (absence of love) indifference

Verb

(lov)
To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI

I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.

* 2013 February 26, and (Nate Ruess), (Just Give Me a Reason) :

Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.

To need, thrive on.

(colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like .

To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).

* John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

* Matthew: 37-38

You shall love' the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall ' love your neighbor as yourself.

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To derive delight from a fact or situation.

To lust for.

(euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)

Antonyms

* hate, despise

Derived terms

* all's fair in love and war * cupboard love * in love * I love you * fall in love * first love * lady love * love affair * love at first sight * love bird/lovebird * love bite/lovebite * love bomb * love bug * lovebunny * love child * loved-up * love egg * love feast * love game * love grass * love handle * love-hate * love-in * love-in-a-mist * love is blind * love life * lovely * love-making * love match * love nest * love potion * lover * love rat * lovertine * love seat * loveship * love-shyness * lovesick * love song * lovestone * love story * love tap * love toy * love triangle * lovey-dovey * loving kindness * loyal love * make love * unrequited love * no love lost * puppy love * tough love * true love * unconditional love

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also (l).

Verb

(lov)
To praise; commend.

To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.

Etymology 3

From the phrase Neither for love nor for money , meaning "nothing". The previously held belief that it originated from the (etyl) term , due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted.

Noun

(-)
(racquet sports) Zero, no score.

So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.

* The Field

He won the match by three sets to love .

* John Betjeman, A Subaltern's Love Song

Love -thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy, / The speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy, / With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won, / I am weak from your loveliness, Joan Hunter Dunn.

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affect
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) affecter, (etyl) affecter, and its source, the participle stem of (etyl) .
Verb
(en verb)
To influence or alter.

The experience affected me deeply.

The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.

* Macaulay

The climate affected their health and spirits.

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To move to emotion.

He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.

* Edmund Burke

A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).

Hepatitis affects the liver.

(archaic) To dispose or incline.

* Milton

men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty

(archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.

* Newton

The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.

(archaic) To assign; to appoint.

* Thackeray

One of the domestics was affected to his special service.

Usage notes
Affect'' and effect are sometimes confused. ''Affect'' conveys influence over something that already exists, but ''effect indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities: * “...new policies have effected major changes in government.” * “...new policies have affected major changes in government.” The former indicates that major changes were made as a result of new policies, while the latter indicates that before new policies, major changes were in place, and that the new policies had some influence over these existing changes. The verbal noun uses of affect'' are distinguished from the verbal noun uses of ''effect'' more clearly than the regular verb forms. An ''affect'' is something that acts or acted upon something else. However, an ''effect is the result of an action (by something else).
Synonyms
* (influence or alter) alter, change, have an effect on, have an impact on, influence * (move to emotion) move, touch * (infect) attack
Derived terms
* affectingly
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (see Etymology 1, above).
Verb
(en verb)
(obsolete) To aim for, to try to obtain.

* Dryden

This proud man affects imperial sway.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.10:

From that day forth she gan to him affect , / And daily more her favour to augment […].

*, I.2.4.vii:

A young gentlewoman in Basil was marriedto an ancient man against her will, whom she could not affect ; she was continually melancholy, and pined away for grief […].

* 1663 , (Samuel Butler), :

But when he pleased to show 't, his speech / In loftiness of sound was rich; / A Babylonish dialect, / Which learned pedants much affect .

* Fuller

As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected , rather honoured than loved, her.

(obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.

*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.9:

*:Amongst humane conditions this one is very common, that we are rather pleased with strange things then with our owne; we love changes, affect alterations, and like innovations.

* Shakespeare

For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed.

* Hazlitt

Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.

To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.

to affect ignorance

He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.

* Congreve

Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.

* Shakespeare

Thou dost affect my manners.

Synonyms
* (make a false display of) fake, simulate, feign
Derived terms
* affected * affectedly * affectedness * affectation
Etymology 3
(etyl) affect, from (etyl) affectus,
Noun
(en noun)
(obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.

(obsolete) A desire, an appetite.

(psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.

* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 62:

if we are afraid of robbers in a dream, the robbers are certainly imaginary, but the fear is real. This draws our attention to the fact that the development of affects in dreams is not amenable to the judgement we make of the rest of the dream-content [...].

* 2004 , Jeffrey Greenberg & Thomas A Pyszczynski, Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology , p. 407:

A third study demonstrated that the effects of self-affirmation on self-regulated performance were not due to positive affect .

Usage notes
Affect'' and effect can both be used as nouns or verbs, but when used as a noun the word ''affect'' is limited to the above psychology uses and the definitions for ''effect are much more common. See also the above.
Derived terms
* affect display * flat affect * labile affect
Related terms
* affecter * affective * affection * affectionate
References
* * English heteronyms English words affected by confusion