1. A power affecting a person, thing, or course of events; especially, one that operates without any direct or apparent effort: There are some people who can have an influence on other people's thinking or actions by means of argument, examples, or force of personality.
2. The power or authority that comes from wealth, social status, or position: The supervisor of Jim's company has a significant influence on his employees.
3. In astrology, an emanation that is believed to come from the stars and planets that affects human characteristics, personality, and actions: It is said that an ethereal fluid or supernatural influence issuing from the celestial bodies can affect a human's future, traits, etc.
4. Etymology: from about 1374, an astrological term meaning, "streaming ethereal power from the stars acting upon character or destiny of men"; from Old French influence, "emanation from the stars that acts upon one's character and destiny"; also "a flow of water", from Middle Latin influentia, "a flowing in" (also used in the astrological sense); which came from Latin influentem, influens, present participle of influere, "to flow into"; fromin-, "in" + fluere, "to flow". © ALL rights are reserved.

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Cosmic rays which can alter the nature of a person's body chemistry and electrical polarity according to the rapport of the body with the twelve sun signs.

A clinical manifestation of certain psychotic disorders: A patient, for example Mike's neighbor Jane, has ideas of influences during which she experiences moments that she might believe that her thoughts are read by other people, that her limbs move without her consent, or that she is under the control of some external force.

Influences on humanity from the past and in the present.

Injurious or traumatic effect or influence: In her medical book, Alice read about a noci-influence that could be anything that had a damaging effect, or the result or outcome itself.