Influence

['ɪnflʊəns] or ['ɪnfluəns]

Definition

(noun.) causing something without any direct or apparent effort.

(noun.) a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc; 'used her parents' influence to get the job'.

(noun.) a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do; 'her wishes had a great influence on his thinking'.

(noun.) one having power to influence another; 'she was the most important influence in my life'; 'he was a bad influence on the children'.

(noun.) the effect of one thing (or person) on another; 'the influence of mechanical action'.

(verb.) have and exert influence or effect; 'The artist's work influenced the young painter'; 'She worked on her friends to support the political candidate'.

Editor: Quentin--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A flowing in or upon; influx.

(n.) Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs.

(n.) Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.

(n.) Induction.

(v. t.) To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce.

Typist: Ursula

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Authority, sway, control, predominance, ascendency, power of impelling or directing, controlling power, directing agency.[2]. Reputation, credit, weight of character.

v. a. [1]. Control, sway, bias, lead, direct.[2]. Move, induce, impel, instigate, persuade, actuate, incite, rouse, arouse, work upon, prevail upon.

Edited by Enrico

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Effect, control, causation, affection, impulse, power, credit, character, sway,weight, ascendancy, prestige, authority

ANT:Inefficiency, ineffectiveness, imperativeness, nullity, neutrality, inemancy

SYN:Move, affect, sway, persuade, direct, bias,[See MOVE_and_AFFECT]

Edited by Brent

Definition

n. power exerted on men or things: power in operation: authority.—v.t. to affect: to move: to direct.—adj. Influen′tial having or exerting influence or power over.—adv. Influen′tially.

Edited by Julius