Difference between Affect and Feign

What is the difference between Affect and Feign?

Affect as a verb is to influence or alter. while Feign as a verb is to give a mental existence to something that is not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; to pretend; to form and relate as if true.

Affect

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Emotion. External display of emotion or mood.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To influence or alter. To move to emotion. Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body). To aim for, to try to obtain. To feel affection for; to like, be fond of. To make a false display of.

Example sentence: To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Feign

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give a mental existence to something that is not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; to pretend; to form and relate as if true.To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit.To dissemble; to conceal.

Example sentence: Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

We hope you now know whether to use Affect or Feign in your sentence.

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