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Mood, similar to emotion, is a state of affect. Mood doesnât necessarily have to have a specific stimuli or cause but rather it is as a result of a more diffused and unfocused occurrence. Emotion, however, has a clear cause. Affect also describes the state of feeling or experience of emotion.
Affect (To, Towards). 1  Affect is based on a Latin word that means 'act on, have influence on, to do something to'. ( 2 The prefix ad results in acting on something.) Affect is both a noun and a verb. 3  The (transitive) verb is the more common form.