{
  "id": "affect.emotional",
  "term": "affect",
  "sense": "emotional",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "domain": "psychological",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "To cause a change in the state of something over time.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "A change in a persistent condition produces an affect.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "emotional shift",
      "psychological impact"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "cause.reason",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "A cause can affect a state"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "affect",
    "affected",
    "affecting",
    "affects"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-affect.emotional"
}