Influence

Noun

 * 1) The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
 * I have absolutely no influence over him.
 * 1) An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
 * I'm not able to exercise influence over him.
 * 1) A person or thing exerting such power or action.
 * He has been a great influence on the voters during the elections.
 * 1)  An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.
 * 2)  The action of flowing in; influx.
 * 3)  electrostatic induction.

Related terms

 * influencer
 * influent
 * influential, influentially
 * social influence
 * sphere of influence
 * under the influence

Verb

 * 1)  To affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.
 * The politician wants to influence the public.
 * I must admit that this book influenced my outlook on life.
 * 1)  To exert, make us of one's influence.
 * 2)  To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

Derived terms

 * influenceable
 * influencer
 * influencive

Related terms

 * influent
 * influential
 * influenza, flu

Adjectives for Influence
prevailing; inspirational;  disintegrating; brutalizing; powerful; benignant; incalculable; tidal; starry; tyrannical; fructifying; sinister; corrosive; parental; controlling; good; withering; gentler; similar; malevolent; baneful; potent; intimate; political; soft; corrupt; personal; iron; sullen; defiant; hypnotic; restless; formative; considerable; disorganizing; maleficent; variable; appealing; cogent; malign; permanent; mephitic; evil; favorable; insidious; pathetic; depressing; scathing; consequent; important; solemn; educational; disastrous; restraining; controlling; enormous; gentle; diminishing; inhibiting; compelling; helpful; mesmeric; mysterious; deadly; healing; persuasive; warping; demoniac; sober; useful; fair; stabilizing; decisive; overgrown; beauteous; internal; unquestioned; uncanny; court; mellow; moonlight; human; morbid; fierce; undue; wide;, partisan; precious; magical; reviving; environmental; divine; hypnotic; genial; disciplinary; evangelical; adverse; favorable; prodigious; conservative; calamitous; censorial; baleful; demoralizing; ultimate; subtle; revolutionary; wholesome; destined; dispiriting; sobering; extensive; marked; destructive; foreign; soothing; vague; reassuring; mitigated; pernicious; gracious; jangling; exhilarating; sympathetic; refining; prenatal; stupefying; quickening; heinous; softening; enlightening; literary; guiding; imponderable; predisposing; Invigorating;   moral;   repressing; ethnographical; incalculable; territorial; desolating; broadening; omnipotent; overgrown; weakening; irritating; lasting; liberal; credible; spreading; tremendous; single; sinister; poetical; disquieting; profound; invariable; witching; dominating; unconscious; balmiest; hasty; compensating; ultimate; environing; secret; disturbing; proportional; steadying; damping; unperceived; dwarfing; ennobling; corrupting; subtle; secondary; political; immense; beneficent; various (pi); salutary; vast; transcendent; despotic; commanding; trivial; sovereign; civilizing; protective; nerve-depleting; subjective; potential; blighting; wide-spread; many-mingled; reflex; problematical; sacred; sweet; transitory; misleading; ethical; marvelous; awful; antecedent; beneficial; unmindful; pernicious; jealous; vivifying; magical; subsequent; unexampled; Infinite; invasive; emotional; soothing; tranquilizing; blasting; benumbing; propitious; aesthetic; toughening; gladdening; immediate; suggestive; carnicular; lost; predominating; underhand; materializing; mollifying; allembracing; unconditional; mitigating; restraining; icy; moderating; celestial; superlative; narrowing; inaugurating; perceptible.

Verbs for Influence
arrest—; bow to—; broaden—; come under —of; cramp—; curb—; diffuse—; exercise —; exert—; fall under—; impose—; infuse —; labor under—; lend—; manifest—ovr; measure—; multiply—; paralyze—; preserve from—; press—; promote—; reflect—; resist—; spread—; stem—; subject to—; survive—; wield—; yield to—; —bends; — corrupts; —declines; —extends to; —prevails; —reigns; —sways; —undermines; — wanes.

Adverbs for Influence
profoundly; powerfully; significantly; phenomenally; subsequently; adversely; unduly; vitally; strikingly; Insensibly; unwillingly; remotely; benignantly; brutalizingly; parentally; malevolently; banefully; hypnotically; depressingly; exhilaratingly; despotically; jealously; morbidly; restrainlngly.

Thesaurus
Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, acme, act on, act upon, actuation, advance, affect, alter, amperage, animation, armipotence, ascendancy, authority, authorization, bad influence, be-all and end-all, beef, behind-the-scenes influence, bend, bias, big wheel, black power, blue ribbon, bring, brute force, carry, championship, change, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, color, command, compulsion, concentrate on, conduce to, connections, consequence, contribute to, control, court, credit, decide, determine, devices, dint, direction, directorship, dispose, distort, dominance, domination, dominion, drag, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, eminence, eminence grise, energy, engage, enlist, expedients, favor, favoritism, first place, first prize, five-percenter, flower power, focus on, force, force majeure, forcefulness, forward, friend at court, full blast, full force, get, get to do, good influence, gray eminence, greatness, headship, heavyweight, hegemony, height, hidden hand, highest, hold, impact, imperium, importance, impress, impress upon, in, incline, induce, influence peddler, influencer, influentialness, ingroup, inner-direction, inspire, interest in, jaundice, jurisdiction, key, kingmaker, kingship, lead, lead to, leadership, leverage, lobby, lobbyist, lords of creation, lordship, lure, machination, main force, main strength, man of influence, mana, management, maneuvering, maneuvers, manipulate, manipulation, manipulator, mastership, mastery, maximum, might, might and main, mightiness, modify, moment, most, motivate, motivation, move, moving, moxie, muscle power, ne plus ultra, new high, open sesame, operate on, other-direction, palms, paramountcy, persuade, pizzazz, political influence, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, powers that be, precedence, predispose, predominance, prejudice, prejudice against, prejudice the issue, prepossess, prepotency, presidency, pressure, pressure group, prestige, primacy, priority, procure, productiveness, productivity, prominence, prompt, prompting, puissance, pull, punch, push, rank, record, redound to, rule, say, seniority, sinew, sinister influence, soften up, sovereignty, special interests, special-interest group, stature, steam, stimulation, strength, strike, strong arm, subserve, superiority, superpower, supremacy, sway, tactical maneuvers, tactics, tempt, the Establishment, tinge, tone, top spot, touch, treat, turn the scale, twist, validity, vehemence, very important person, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, warp, wattage, wear down, weigh with, weight, weightiness, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller, wire-pulling, work, work on, zenith

Etymology
From, from influence:, from  influentia:, from  influens:, present active participle of influo:, from in-: + fluo:.

Noun

 * Arabic: نفوذ
 * Breton: levezon
 * Chinese:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: indflydelse
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: influo
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: (えいきょうりょく, eikyōryoku)
 * Korean: 영향력 (yeong-hyangryeok)
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: influență
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: vpliv
 * Swedish: inflytande
 * Volapük: flun


 * Arabic: تأثير
 * Chinese:
 * Dutch: invloed, beïnvloeding
 * Finnish:
 * German: Beeinflussung
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: (えいきょう, eikyō)
 * Korean: 영향 (yeong-hyang)
 * Polish:
 * Russian: влияние (vlijáni'e)
 * Slovene: vpliv


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Einfluss, Beeinflusser
 * Japanese: (ゆうりょくしゃ, yūryokusha)


 * Romanian: influențător
 * Slovene: vpliv
 * Swedish: inflytande


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Korean: 영향 (yeong-hyang)
 * Slovene: vpliv


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: sähköstaattinen induktio
 * Polish: indukcja


 * Romanian: inducție
 * Russian:


 * : تأثير
 * : влияние (vlijanie)
 * : influence
 * : השפעה
 * : influo +, influeso -
 * : Influenza
 * : įtaka
 * : inflytande
 * : influencia
 * : ప్రభావము (prabhaavamu)

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:


 * Polish:
 * Russian: влиять (vliját')
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: påverka
 * Volapük: flunön
 * Yiddish:


 * Chinese:
 * Dutch: invloed uitoefenen
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: влиять (vliját'), воздействовать (vozd'éjstvovat')

Noun

 * 1) (An) influence.

Related terms

 * influençable
 * influencer
 * influent
 * influentiel
 * influenza

Verb form

 * 1) imperative form of influencer
 * 2) singular present imperfect form of influencer

Etymology
From influentia:, from  influens:, present active participle of influo:, from in-: + fluo:.