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affective Definition

af·fec·tive (a fek′tiv, ə-)

adjective

of, or arising from, affects, or feelings; emotional

Etymology: Fr affectif < ML affectivus < L affectus: see affect

affective Related Forms
af·fec′·tively adverb af′·fec·tiv′·ity (af′ek tiv′ə tē, -ik-) noun
affective Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • genuine: They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity.

Modifies a noun

  • disorder: A family history of affective disorder may also be a risk factor.
  • neuroscience: Recent advances in affective neuroscience have demonstrated this beyond doubt for fear.
  • psychosis: Nearly three quarters of people with schizophrenia, affective psychosis, and other mental health disorders who live in mental health settings are smokers.
  • dimension: The affective dimensions of life do not appear in the context of objective, neutral laws.
  • consciousness: Also, all three sorts of affective consciousness are involved in the fourth, the intentions.
  • computing: The overarching term, affective computing, describes technologies that relate to emotions.

Modifying Another Word

  • highly: These are unleashed in the context of state crisis where former loyalties are replaced with highly affective commitment to rectification of imagined historical wrongs.
  • very: GREEN Using pots of colored plants and bulbs, is very affective against the back drop of a green garden.
  • so: After more than 30 years, what is the legacy of this grand transformation, and why is this esthetic still so affective?
  • not: But unless made into something of the same sort, another poem, a translation is not affective.

Noun used with modifier

  • cost: All locations are linked by ADSL broadband enabling cost affective, real time communication and sharing of data between the concessions and head office.