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affective

[af-ek-tiv]

adjective

of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.

causing emotion or feeling.

Origin:
1540–50; < Medieval Latin affectīvus, equivalent to Latin affect(us) (action noun; see affect¹) + -īvus -ive

Related forms

af·fec·tive·ly, adverb

af·fec·tiv·i·ty

[af-ek-tiv-i-tee] , noun

non·af·fec·tive, adjective

Can be confused: affective, effective (see synonym note at effective).

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Wood doors can indeed experience seasonal affective disorder.

Fish countered the affective fallacy, arguing that all meaning resided in the experience of the reader.

We have to step up to the mark and realise our own universal nature, and how affective it is or can be.

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Wood doors can indeed experience seasonal affective disorder.

Fish countered the affective fallacy, arguing that all meaning resided in the experience of the reader.

We have to step up to the mark and realise our own universal nature, and how affective it is or can be.

We know that personal decisions and scientific learning have important affective and social components.

Seasonal affective disorder--the winter blues--can be lifted with bright light, as long as treatment is timed properly.

The theories run the gamut ranging from personality disorders to affective disorders to psychotic disorders.

Fortunately, the uneven texture of the bread makes for an affective antialiasing filter.

However, it does not rule out bipolar affective disorder.

Empathy is part of our affective education that is in short supply.

Stockholm's a great city and this is a good rundown on what to do, brief and affective.

Cannabis use and risk of psychotic or affective mental health outcomes: a systematic review.

One form of depression, seasonal affective disorder, is tightly linked with winter.

Rather, it is in selling the value of the ideas and forging the trust with colleagues to create affective partnerships.

Or perhaps it's a simple a case of seasonal affective disorder in reverse.

We feel wise to have exchanged a degree of possible monetary rewards for affective compensation instead.

They help us focus on key affective issues that eventually make the communication between robot and human deeper and more social.

Now it seems to be a matter of how to capture or nudge in a cost affective manner.

Jason, you make some really good points here about the affective benefits of a lecture.

The numbers used in the article are affective bits rather than discrete bits.

Light therapy is effective in seasonal affective disorder.

Such affective response may include empathy and remorse.

With three new people in the house, the affective arrangements come up for radical reconsideration.

Here he has turned down the ideology in favor of a less obviously partisan but more emotionally affective realism.

Miniter, who is suffering from a reverse form of seasonal affective disorder.

But a few months of winter and football brought on seasonal affective disorder of the soul.

It is important for a specialist to evaluate the person for other affective disorders and treat those disorders.

The sunlight emanates from light boxes designed to treat seasonal affective disorder.

Light therapy is already used to treat seasonal affective disorder and premature infants.

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World English Dictionary

affective (əˈfɛktɪv)

—*adj*
1.	psychol relating to affects
2.	concerned with or arousing the emotions or affection

affectivity

—n

af'fectiveness

—n

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Medical Dictionary

affective af·fec·tive (ə-fěk'tĭv)
adj.

Concerned with or arousing feelings or emotions; emotional.
Influenced by or resulting from the emotions, as of a psychological disorder.

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