Affect and Desire

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Affect noun - The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion.

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Desire and affect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Desire" instead a noun "Affect".

Desire noun - A strong wish for something.

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Affect and desire are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead a noun "Desire".

Nearby Words: desirous, desirable, desired, desiring, Desiree

person	affect person	desire person
ability	affect ability	desire ability
life	affect life	desire life
change	affect change	desire change
Other words: children, world, game, powers.

Used with a twist in one episode, in which a woman who wants to kill her husband gets the amnesia treatment after killing a UFO pilot instead - but the amnesia doesn't affect her desire to kill her husband, and SHADO can't interfere without revealing their secrets.

Source: Laser-Guided Amnesia
Foregone Conclusion: Downplayed: we know that neither Kaguya and Mokou nor Rumia Yagami have managed to get out of Rin's body because the Time Skip in the main story does not affect Rhapsody of Subconscious Desire, which means that by the time the Time Skip has happened, RoSD has already ended.

Source: Fan Fic / Imperfect Metamorphosis
Lotus-Eater Machine: The first trial to reach the Soluna Stone is to pass a field of Heart's Desire, the pollen of which has this affect — Twilight becomes Celestia's right-hoof mare, Trixie's act gets world renown, and Spike finds a whole cavern of gems all for himself.

Source: Fanfic / Life in Manehattan

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