Affective
of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.
causing emotion or feeling.
Contemporary Examples
The repetitive nature of his work is both effective and affective, especially in an exhibition of this scale.
Keith Haring’s Public, Political Art at Paris’s Musée D’Art Moderne Alice Cavanagh April 18, 2013
Instead, it turned out to be richly perceptual and affective.
A Silence Worth 1,000 Pictures Blake Gopnik September 19, 2013
Historical Examples
The changing secondary ideas, by means of their own affective influences, give it its special temporal and local signs.
An Introduction to Psychology Wilhelm Max Wundt
In like manner there are affective qualities and affections of the soul.
The Categories Aristotle
The nature of mental diseases consists in the return to former states of the affective life and function.
Reflections on War and Death Sigmund Freud
In the realm of the affective states, transfers of this sort are not at all rare.
Essay on the Creative Imagination Th. Ribot
A third class within this category is that of affective qualities and affections.
The Categories Aristotle
It consists in expunging the characteristic of the affective states.
The Mind and the Brain Alfred Binet
The element which distinguishes appreciation from memory or imagination or perception is an affective one.
How to Teach George Drayton Strayer and Naomi Norsworthy
The passionate vehemence with which her words were uttered was affective.
A Prince of Anahuac James A. Porter
adjective
(psychol) relating to affects
concerned with or arousing the emotions or affection
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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