Affective Definition

ə-fĕktĭv
adjective
Of, or arising from, affects, or feelings; emotional.
Webster's New World

Influenced by or resulting from the emotions.

Affective gestures and facial expressions.
American Heritage Medicine

Concerned with or arousing feelings or emotions; emotional.

Affective therapy.
American Heritage Medicine

The definition of affective is something that evokes feelings, or emotional actions or actions driven by feelings.

An example of something that would be described as affective is an opera.
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Relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions.

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Origin of Affective

  • From Medieval Latin affectivus, from Latin affectus, past participle of afficere (“to affect”)

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Affective Sentence Examples

  • There is a close association among social and affective abilities and cognitive, sensory, and language development.

  • After studying words of positive, neutral, and negative affective valences, subjects produced free associations to various cues.

  • The second solution is that every sensation has its specific affective quality, though by reason of the poverty of language many of these have no name.

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

  • These are unleashed in the context of state crisis where former loyalties are replaced with highly affective commitment to rectification of imagined historical wrongs.

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